Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.

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 used to be Autumn Winters, daughter of an actress and an architect. I had been one of three living in this home, but now I was just Autumn Winters, and I was alone.

What we expect rarely occurs

If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.

You are not responsible for the reader, you're only responsible for what you are writing.

When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

It's so normal for a teenager to dress in black -- and be real unhappy and stay in your room and say sarcastic things. How could something so normal be considered morbid?

The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.