Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.