It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

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

He loved Big Brother.