Weakness is strength.

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.

... some wounds refuse the remedy of time.

Could you imagine a windstorm without the rustling of the leaves? You are made of the same stuff as the leaves–and the wind. You are meant to be rustled and sung.

Would your city weep if your church did not exist?

Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.

Love is still a simple act of faith, and a faithful heart is always worth the wait.

They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone.

God, come down, if you're really there - Well, you're the one who claims to care!