I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.