For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

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.

Just as you dress for the occasion you should undress when reading erotica.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something.

I like a fine wine. Who can beat that? I don't think it helps writing; I think it's a hinderance. It helps numb you.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

I go to books and to nature as a bee goes to the flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

It is important to learn as much as you can about the person and then throw it all away so that you're not in any way doing some sort of mimicry.

I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.