How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change. With nothing causing it.

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.

She is a great gobbler of books, but reads only trash, memorizing nothing and leaving out the longer descriptions.

To love means not to impose your own powers on your fellow man but offer him your help. And if he refuses it to be proud that he can do it on his own strength.

That suit is best that best suits me.

If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

I don't mind paying higher taxes, because I've done quite well and I'm blessed to live in this country.

The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

People first. Dogs second. Things last.

I love women's fashion, but women don't need me as much as men do. It's the men who have nothing to wear.