The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

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.

Oxford was not a conspiracy of silence as far as women were concerned

Imagination is not an icing on the cake of life but the oven in which it is baked.

How happy are the pessimists! What joy is theirs when they have proved there is no joy.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

I'm an obsessive writer who needs and loves revision. Writing helps me learn and helps me teach.

Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?