“At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.”

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don’t have to ask whose side I’m on.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

Despotic governments can stand ‘moral force’ till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force.

Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.

The only good human being is a dead one.

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.

Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Your wrinkles either show that you’re nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you’re always smiling.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

We eat a lot of lean meat and fresh vegetables.. You are what you eat, you know. When I’m 100 I’ll still be doing pin-ups.

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

Balding if God’s way of showing you are only human… He takes the hair off your head and puts it in your ears.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.

It’s taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man’s voice. Because I only liked old men’s voices. As a kid, I didn’t like pip-squeaked singers.

When I was 10, I beat up the school bully. His arms were in casts. That’s what gave me the courage.