The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

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.

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.

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

But the frat boys were all frivolous and idiotic in our minds now, a bunch of conformist fools going through the motions of hip.

Just because you're beautiful, they think you can't act.... I've got a lot more to prove.

In real life, I'm such a dorky, happy person. I express myself in three ways: I talk a lot, I write songs and I get tattoos.

It tastes like somebody stole my wallet. Ya know?

Sharing information, art, music, and everything on the internet now has become a part of everyone's lives.

I suppose that the great questions of "Fate, Freewill, Foreknowledge Absolute," which used to be discussed at Concord, are still unsettled.

Its so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. Its like the worlds weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, Who is this tool standing up in front of us?

It's unbelievable to have come through a field of 64 of the best players I've seen for a long time.