The more intelligent, the less sane

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.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

Real suspense comes with moral dilemma and the courage to make and act upon choices. False suspense comes from the accidental and meaningless occurrence of one damned thing after another.

At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.

Man is fallible, but maybe men are less so.

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

I had had some months of depression. Not serious enough to keep me from work. So, I guess you'd call that a mild depression.

We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!