Do you know why you’re here? Shall I tell you why we brought you here? To cure you.To make you sane.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality is inside the skull.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years!

We all write stories in our minds, but only few have the courage to put them on paper.

If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

It has always seemed to me a great honor to be called an Irish poet. I don't think I will ever lose that, but it's also a great honor to be a woman poet. I put those things together.

People do not read, by and large. They watch television.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

The death penalty experiment has failed.

I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.