“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us.' - Julia”

“We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed. The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. ”

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”

“Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.”

“Do it to Julia.”

“The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.”

“We are the dead,' he said.'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically.'Not physically. Six months, a year – five years, conceivably. I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put it off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So longs as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.''Oh, rubbish! Which would you sooner sleep with, me or a skeleton? Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'm real, I'm solid, I'm alive!”