Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

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.

By 20, you should be smart. By 30, you should be strong. By 40, you should be rich. By 50, you should be wise. But if you are smart, strong, rich and wise, you don't need any age limits.

...make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later.

Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.

LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist.

The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

A conductor should guide rather than command.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Normally, even if you're on the set for 12 hours, there may be only a moment or two when you are actually useful.