Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...