But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

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.