I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

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.

We can no longer create the feeling of an era...of time being particular to one spot in time.

I don't care about eternity. I was not their when it began, I will not be there when it ends

Some day each of us will be famous for fifteen minutes.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

The idea that we're somehow centrally important to the planet's existence is pretty comical - although I'd like us to be.

Greatness is a lot of small things done well.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past