"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history and become truth."

"The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already."

"The English are not a spiritual people. They are a practical people."

"The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right all alon…"

"All that was required was an endless series of victories over your own memory."