I don't know why people who got what they need to be happy don't just go ahead and be happy..

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven….

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the ….

Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by goin….

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf..

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation o….

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you..

The worst thing about the fantasies of the mentally ill is that they're so damned consistent. They never let up. They never give you any rest..

The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell..

You understand that the piggies are animals, and you no more condemn them for murdering Libo and Pipo than you condemn a cabra for shewing up capim."….

The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsi….

Let's fly away and live forever.

I merely observe that all living things are manipulated. As long as there is a will, it is bent and twisted constantly. Only the dead are allowed the….

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them..

His vices were the vices of his time and culture, but his virtues transcended the milieu of his life..

But Father has also taught him: Treat a man as if he had a fine reputation to protect, and he will usually endeavor to deserve it..

Just because you believe it doesn't make it so..

How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out..

Whoop-de-do," said Ram. "What?" "I'm celebrating." "Was that irony or loss of mental function?" asked the expendable. "Was that a rhetorical question….

No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds of affection and f….

Sister Carlotta, I'm on a leave of absence right now. That means I've been sacked, in case you don't understand how the I.F. handles these things.” "….