Never fight an inanimate object. The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. Human life, by its very nature, has to be dedicated to something.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Good writing is like a windowpane. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.