It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

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.

Your life is such that you are running a race against a diminishing life.

You like it in jail?It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to?

I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality.

In every thriller written about Washington, particularly after 9/11, there are good guys and there are bad guys, and there's no gray area at all.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

The social network will be the new production line in a company.

Make greatness attainable by all.

I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

What good is money to you if you're going to die? It's not often that money can save someone's life.

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.