Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.

To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.