You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing.

Don't forget to thank everyday for the good things in life. They can disappear in the blink of an eye.

I have great respect for you - once you are dead, and gone

When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

What can I say? I’m a sucker for the shy, quiet types.

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.

Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children.