So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

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.

Beauty is a sense of harmony.

The devil is a bad devil.

Because, of course, it wouldn't do to just talk to her. She had spoken to him in flashes of daylight, and he felt he ought to reply in kind.

I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.

If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.