"He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin."
"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
"The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."
"To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!"
"He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."