He loved her with the fire of a thousand suns, she was his solace in the chaos, his redemption.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination.

I studied, I met with medical doctors, scientists, and I’m here to tell you that the way to a more productive, more inspired, more joyful life is: getting enough sleep.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

A bag of bones can slip through small cracks in a crowd effortlessly.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

A leader should care way more about HOW people are doing rather than HOW they are doing their work.

Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

It hurts. I miss my kids. I miss my kids in so many ways that I can't explain.