What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce…”

“There is a humility about genuine love that is rather horrible in some ways.”

“...out from the door of the farmhouse came a long file of pigs, all walking on …”

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit v…”