I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not the world we actually have, because the world we actually have does not meet my standards.

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.

The moment you learn the lesson, the test will be over.

i am n0t aFraiD oV deaTh, I juX dun waNna Be thEre weN iT haPpeNZ !

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.

If you shake my hand, better count your fingers

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

There are people who like just ordinary comedy fun, and making mistakes - which I do easily - and then there are people who like the falling over.

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

Everybody sung in my family.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.