"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."

"No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."

"Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

"Sinn Fein has demonstrated the ability to play a leadership role as part of a popular movement towards peace, equality and justice."

"I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace."

"People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government."