In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me.

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.

Sometimes I long to forget… It is painful to be conscious of two worlds.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

Sometimes a good love song can change the world and create positive energy more than any political song can.

The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

By that time I was thinking a little about pro ball and hopeful that someone would draft me.

It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us.

A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand.

Curiosity makes loneliness.

A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.