The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

I quite like it when you're working with people and you only get to know them through the scenes that you're doing together.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

There's nothing as short as short-term debt.

Land of lost gods and godlike men.

Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, around me is boundless opportunity.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

NOW is All There is & the Future is Just Another Present Moment to Live when it Arrives