"This is Mr. Orwell’s picture of the way the world ends," Diana Trilling wrote in The Nation of 1984, "a perpetual nightmare of living death."

"It seems likely that the punishment inflicted on the enemy [has] reduced his offensive power and brought nearer the day when we shall be able to count on effective naval superiority in the Pacific."

"What day is this? D-Day? What has that to do with us? Our men are landing on the beaches of France? But have they votes in November?"

"He would secure his brother’s good name by defying, and if possible defeating, the evil consequences that had flowed from his brother’s brutally interrupted administration. And now a bullet has put a stop to that."

"The popular conclusion to draw...is that this is a further installment in the death of socialism and the triumph of the West. Not so."

"In time much is sure to be written of Franz Kafka, for he is inevitably sure of a place...among the foremost writers of our time."

"America is a reckless squanderer where small racial units are concerned, and the cause of any Indian race seems a priori a lost cause."

“Perhaps the best thing about it all is that Miss Keller has come through to middle age a liberal in spirit. The injustices of our society weigh heavily upon her.”

In a twist worthy of le Carré, Deep Throat was assigned the mission of unearthing—and stopping—Deep Throat.

"Like the Jews of Harlem or the Asians of East Africa or the Chinese of Southeast Asia, the Ibos were the prominent outsiders in the economic life of the dominant population and, like the others, they were hated."