A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

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.

Preparing citizens to act thoughtfully to create a more just, open, and creative society gives form, substance and meaning to often abstract concepts of freedom and democracy.

With silence comes mindfulness, and thus we become better at choosing our words with kind intent before we express them.

I can weave threads of myself into a tapestry already designed by others.

I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

There is a universal urge for intimacy, for trading subjectivities, in communication. For Telepathy. Our desire for it tells us about what we wish to be: truly intersubjective beings.

You are a fool in four letters, my son.

Doesn't every band sort of appropriate their influences into what they do? I guess that would be my defence: if you're making something, you kinda can't help being a conduit for other things.

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.

Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.