Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.

During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

If I were a teacher, I would recommend that all my students very hurriedly read most of Orwell's books, especially 1984 and Animal Farm, because then they'd begin to understand the world we live in.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Secretive power loathes journalists who do their job: who push back screens, peer behind façades, lift rocks. Opprobrium from on high is their badge of honour.

There is no war on terrorism; it is the great game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

In these surreal days, there is one truth. Nothing justified the killing of innocent people in America last week and nothing justifies the killing of innocent people anywhere else.

... the objects which we admire have no absolute value in themselves...

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

I promise permanence. I promise persistence. I promise that falling in love was just the beginning for us.

If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.

To be reborn, you have to die first.

Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

I don't expect executives to be creative but I do expect them to have courage.

I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

To see God is the one goal. Power is not the goal.