Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

I get audited almost every year.And in a way, I should be complaining. I'm not even complaining. I don't mind it. It's almost become a way of life. I get audited by the IRS. But other people don't.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue

If you don't speak out when it matters, when would it matter to speak out?

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Unpredictability is the greatest asset a leader can have.

And soon a branch, part of a hidden scene,The leafy mind, that long was tightly furled,Will turn its private substance into green,And young shoots spread upon our inner world.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.