Many men talk like philosophers and live like fools.

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.

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

It is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

Life is a strange mixture of all of these genres, she mused, and it doesn’t have nearly as neat and happy an ending as you often get in books.

I like to be loved by my children, and I quite like the Guardian hating me.

I started bowling when I was 14, my freshman year in high school.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

I dream in my dreams all the dreams of the other dreamers. And I become the other dreamers.