The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

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

To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.