He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

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.

Passive perception promotes pessimism

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for our anguish.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

I have a pretty bad temper. But you have to really push me to see it. But everybody has their things.

Folks who go through the tabloids ought to have to be lied to.

You have to learn to accept your body. You have to learn to like what you see in the mirror. There are definitely times when I don't feel like myself, but you have to fake it until you make it.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.