For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.

Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Big Brother is watching you.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY