You should have died when I killed you.

Everyone who is not happy must be shot.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

All men are born free: just not for long.

Give a man a car of his own and he leaves humility and common sense behind him in the garage.

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of one's own generation.

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

If we lose our wilderness, we have nothing left, in my opinion, worth fighting for; or to be more exact, a completely industrialized United States is of no consequence to me.

I believe in singing.

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

We fell in love last night. He's the coolest guy.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

Editing is just ongoing. I don't count drafts, or know what would fully constitute a draft. But I try to fix as I go. And there's always more to fix.

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.