Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

What happens to you here is forever.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful.

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.