Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen.