If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

A day without writing was a little death.

There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers.