In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

Students who acquire large debts putting themselves through school are unlikely to think about changing society. When you trap people in a system of debt, they can't afford the time to think.

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.

The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Nobody should have any illusions. The United States has essentially a one-party system and the ruling party is the business party.

If you want to control a population... give them a God to worship.

A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language.

If you want to change anything or your surroundingChange your perception, it will change everything.

...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...

I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work, life, and writing? If you find out, please tell me.

Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

It's up to couples, to individuals, to have a trust between each other.

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.