How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

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.

Love is sacrifice. Love sacrifices itself for its neighbor.

Once bitten, twice shy. Once caring, twice cry.Once beloved, can’t deny—heart broken, twice die.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

The sea always offers up incredible stories of survivors' fortitude. Myths of a lot of countries have variations on that.

It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.

Gratitude never radicalized anybody. I don't care if they recognize the past, I just want them to get angry about the present and keep going.

To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

L.A. is a great place to write because you have a lot of space. I have a big office at home, I can leave the doors open. Flowers bloom all year. But it's unglamorous in all the right ways.