Call it not paranoia, but caution.

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook.

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.

Clever's not enough to hold me - I want characters who are more than devices to be moved about for Effect.

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere.

...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

I haven't any sort of plans for the future but I reckon things will work out in some manner.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Every time I left for the battlefield I promised this to myself; I must live to see you again. In order to protect you, I promised myself that I must win.

The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

What if today.. you were inspired and fed by your thoughts instead of being confined by them?

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.