In a one-party system there is always a landslide.

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.

David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.

She had always enjoyed the carte blanche accorded to mobsters, aristocrats, circus clowns, and lunatics

Spyglass is not interested In Stargate.

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

All you must do is accecpt all that is unaccecptable to you.

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

Everything is possible if you try enough so if something doesn't work out, you're not trying enough.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.