What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

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.

It just struck me that one of the things about photography that made it such a compelling medium to deal with is that it is perhaps the most contradictory of mediums.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

The social Web is incredibly good at shining bright lights into dark corners.

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

It's one thing to make a choice. It's another to put that choice into practice.

White is an attitude.

Fundamentalism is only a problem if the fundamentals are a problem

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.