The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Today, tomorrow, " she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldn’t understand what they meant for a long, long time.

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

In this way, you’ll live forever.

Your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Marry your friend, and you will be reasonably happy. Marry your lover, and you will be abundantly happy. Marry your soulmate, and you will be infinitely happy.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

He has the ability to catch someone by the way that he looks at her, and make her wish he would go on looking.

You're always against the clock. But really just fighting for quality.

Here is their plan. Whistle a happy tune while driving us off a fiscal cliff as long as they are behind the wheel of power when we fall.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

Words are not the end of thought, they are where it begins.

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.