If I'd been born a ghoul, I think I would've killed people. I just happened to be born a human. That's the only reason why I'm allowed to live a moral life.

Even if it's a life in shackles, if you have somebody who accepts you for what you really are, how reassuring would that be?

Something this rare... Nobody can have him but me...

Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

Embrace the magnificence that is inside you.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

Snobs talk as if they had begotten their own ancestors.

The job is nothing but a twenty-ring circus-with a whole lot of bad actors.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it.