Upon him the contempt of three planets descended.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

no one asks poor people if they want war.

And that's how you go on. You lay laughter over the dark parts. The more dark parts, the more you have to laugh. With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.

How sure we are that everyone's watching. How sure we are that no one sees.

Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.

They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.

We didn't realize we were making memories we just knew we were having fun.