A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

“At every party, there are two kinds of people–those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.”