Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

...two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary.

People in L.A. think Im so posh. They think I live in Downton Abbey.

If you have a dream, dont wait.Act

Never want something without expecting it

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Sometimes you win by losing.

Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party.