Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

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.

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)

When it comes to family, everything gets personal.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Ascensions into heaven are like falling leaves sad and happy all at the same time Going away isn't really sad especially when your going enables a new kind of presence to be born.

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

There will always be critics eager to fashion opinions for the lazy and incapable.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

I absolutely love working with my dad because there is such an ease about it, and I also love his company.

It's never too late to redefine self-control, to change long-ingrained habits, and to do the work you're capable of.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation