Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

The ultimate tendency of liberalism is vegetarianism.

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

When I read it ["Tough Guys Don't Dance"], I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.