Every junkie, he thought, is a recording.

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.

It is the bravery of the lion that enables you the lion’s share of the power. More important than all, know this: bravery begets victory.

A Scotch mist may wet an Englishman to the skin.

Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

I enjoy raining on parades and throwing stones in glass homes.

Shakespeare . . . If he does not give you delight, you had better ignore him [if you can].

You can stroke people with words.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.

You're my favorite mistake