"As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created."

“There's nothing like success.”

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.”

“It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.”

Source : Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.33, New York Review of Books

“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.”

Source : "Shadowlands", 1993.

“I don't bother so much about the others' songs. For instance, I don't give a damn about how 'Something' is doing in the charts - I watch 'Come Together' (the flip side) because that's my song.”

“Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.”

“In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.”

“I had that morning gone to say my farewells to Broadhurst and to the RAF. I had made a point of going to HQ at Schleswig in my 'Grand Charles.' Coming back I had taken him high up in the cloudless summer sky, for it was only there that I could fittingly take my leave. Together we climbed for the last time straight towards the sun. We looped once, perhaps twice, we lovingly did a few slow, meticulous rolls, so that I could take away in my finger-tips the vibration of his supple, docile wings.”