All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

A word spoken in good season how good it is!

It never seems to occur to some people, that, like beauty, a sense of humor may sometimes be fatal.

To me Moses is all men grown to gigantic proportions.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

Have you ever seen innovation where someone didn’t take a risk?

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

Patience is a form of faith. It says, "I trust God. I believe that God is bigger than this problem."

My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government.

People first, then money, then things.