The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality is inside the skull.

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

It is silent, an anagram for listen. That is what I do. Listen while she remains silent.

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

I wound up signing to RCA Victor as a trumpeter, guesting on shows like Jackie Gleason's Honeymooners.

The smartphone revolution is under-hyped, more people have access to phones than access to running water. We've never had anything like this before since the beginning of the planet.

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

It's great to have something you can be proud of.

You can't underestimate anyone.

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.