Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey. Animal Farm

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying — to others and to yourself. The Karamazov Brothers

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated. The Winter of Our Discontent

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. The Critic as Artist