"Serious sport is war minus the shooting."

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."

"I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding."

"I mean, the Obama position has been, 'We think government ought to be spending this money, not the people who earn it.'"

"Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige."

"Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts."