J-bats

“They build their own Hells.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984