Never use a long word where a short one will do.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.