The tank, the submarine, the torpedo, the machine-gun, even the rifle and the hand grenade are still in use.

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.

Since when did psychiatry become one big, fat Myspace survey?

When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you've been taken into the past.

I believe devoutly in the Word. The Word can save all destroy all stop the inevitable and express the inexpressible.

I figured out that there are occasions where you have to get pumped up and take charge, situations where you have to have fun and situations where you need to settle down.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

The poor are the blacks of Europe.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

I'm a good Catholic boy.