England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

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.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Wonderland was wonderful, but without a counterbalance, it could turn it's inhabitants completely insane.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

It's an addictive thing. It's not so much I like to go win, but it's a rush.

Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there

I labored for eight years thinking that I was writing a book for adults that was a nostalgic look back on childhood. Then my publisher informed me I'd written a children's book.

I find that the vast majority of people who are judging are just fearful or insecure.

... appeals to memory were never perfectly answered.

Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.