I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

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.

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

Put your sword back in its place, " Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

And make each day a critic on the last.

True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!

You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.

Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion.

I'm essentially a momma's boy with a good education.

During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.