Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. – George Orwell
Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. – George Orwell
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell
What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero. – Pablo Picasso