The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

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.

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I go silent so I can write. When my tongue is wagging my fingers are silent.

Promise me you'll stay and I promise to haunt you in the most heavenly way - with dark devotion and deep emotion.

Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.

I was a typical teen growing up in the 1960s, when everybody was into gurus and meditation.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.

I did all the dialect work, all my character work completely by myself.

I've always thought of myself as an organic writer, rather than a cerebral one. I feel my way along as I go, hoping I'll get to the place I intend to reach.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.