War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

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.

Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument

The future is the shape of things to come.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

Shay Given almost single-handedly won the match for Newcastle against Everton, although obviously he didn't score the goals

The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they all become beautiful.

We should choose our thoughts carefully. We can think about what is wrong with our lives or about what is right with them.

Marriage is not an institution to be tampered with by mankind, and certainly not to be tampered with by those who are doing so simply for their own purposes.

I'm whispering so that the media doesn't hear me.

I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.