John Irving

“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
― Thomas Sowell, Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be
When there’s no help in truth.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984