Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside