Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.

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 doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

Always let people see a reflection of God in you

The poorest man you can marry is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks character.

Integrity is a most valued human quality.

Go and venture! You should not give up after failures because this gift does not belong only to you

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

I want to be a part of the grand plan. Being on board with God's objectives means I understand that this is not about me.