Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

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