"I am not a real novelist anyway."

"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Perhaps one of the most alarming things about totalitarianism is that it is not, as is sometimes imagined, a static tyranny, but a dynamic one."

"Happiness can exist only in acceptance."

"The greatest danger to Western civilization is not communism, but the intellectual who thinks he is a communist."