Soviet power is a new type of state in which there is no bureacracy, no police, no standing army.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Our decisions are the one thing we can control. Today’s the day to make those choices really count.

Football is a sad game.

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.

My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.

I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.