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

The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

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.

Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.