Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

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.

Do not allow your inner doubts to keep you from achieving what you can do.

Just be happy and if you can't be happy, do things that make you happy. or do nothing with the people that make you happy.

A man does not plant a tree for himself; he plants it for posterity.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach man his proper relation to the environment where he must live.

I am satisfied with everything in my life. Including the fact that I spent time in jail.

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

Come what may, I have been blest.

Customers pay a price, but they remember the value.

True prosperity can only come from a healthy economy and sound money. That can only be achieved in a free society.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.