It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Big Brother is watching you.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

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.