No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.