THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.

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.

The energy of love is indestructible

Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.

Any city in America would like to get a museum built if they didn't have to pay for it.

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.

Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony.