The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

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.

You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think of the bruises.

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

Who among us would ask our children for a loan, so we could spend money we do not have on things we do not need?

I write because I must. It's not a choice or a pastime, it's an unyielding calling and my passion.

I love working in TV. TV is fast. You shoot it and it's done quickly.

You haven't lived until you've died in California

You are what you wear.

If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.

We were going to kill ourselves in trying to kill each other.

I wish that every baby everywhere could land in a family that wanted that baby as much as we want ours.