Life is short, he thought. Art, or something not life, is long, stretching out endless, like [a] concrete worm. Flat, white, unsmoothed by any passage over or across it.

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.

I feel an author and an illustrator weave the magic of a children's picture book together.

You need to use you imagined view of the future you dream of, then paint the statement in words, to state that clear dream of your desired future.

They might say that i am crazy or out of my mind to made such decision in my life. But they need to remember that must think twice before once say. Cause it might hurt someone for no specific reason.

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

After people have gone, you forget their faults, and you recall the ideal more than the person.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

Whatever past you had, when you become a mother, it [life] is a whole different thing. You can't even predict it.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

The more you’re writing absolutely honestly, and absolutely bare of intention - even if it feels absolutely personal and small because it’s at your own scale - other people relate to it much more.