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

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.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think about it, we make it into youth.

I had a lot of nights alone, ” Kelly said. Nick raised his head, and their noses brushed. Kelly’s breath was warm against his lips. “I called your name every damn time.

If you think I'm overdramatic, just remember that Candy Crush calls itself a saga.

The cruelest thing you can do tosomeone is force them to hurt alone

Hope of gain lessens pain.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Garlic bread - it's the future, I've tasted it.

What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.

Intelligence cannot be present without understanding. No computer has any awareness of what it does.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it.