Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.

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.

The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.

Free men are the strongest men.

I swore that I would never say I miss you more everyday but, some things are better left unsaid.

I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

Love happens when people forgive.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

I don't like people--much. This kind, I mean. And they don't like me at all, as a rule. Maybe the latter explains the former.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.