The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

Any success against a false target is a false victory.

It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.

You're a free man, act like it.

You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.

Public-sector employment — another way to be shielded from reality.

Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?

If we don’t make our own future, it will be made for us.

If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.

Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.

Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

If you are willing to persistently hold strong to your goals and dreams, it would only become a matter of time until impossibilities start to become possibilities in your life.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be.

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

All societies that have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work - and therefore as dads.