You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.