It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

You can start now and create a great future.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

Being joyful is a choice.

Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

The book [Manufacturing Consent] itself is then devoted to a series of case studies, selected, we hope [with Edward Herman], to offer a fair and in fact rather severe test of those conclusions.

It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own.

I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.

A just fortune awaits the deserving. [Lat., Fors aequa merentes Respicit.]