Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

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

This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

It's impossible to live without hurting others.

Regardless of the perpetual battle between believers and atheists, for me, religion is a tool of making friends, rather than making enemies.

Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.

The woman who says, 'My kids are all speaking to one another and they love us' is a psychopathic liar.

What is worthwhile in life? I think it is worth living and dreaming. If you don't you may be dead anyhow - inside.

There is humor that's just whimsy, that we smile at, but the humor that we laugh at, someone has to be - someone's dignity has to be reduced.

It's impossible to tell you what I'm going to do except to say that I expect to make the best movie ever made.

Elections are a good deal like marriages. There's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with public officials.