Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip.

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!