Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.