Skill is a function of chance. It’s an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

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.

...if desire is predominant it can deform love between man and woman and rob them both of it.

Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body.

Spend some personal time with Jesus and he will reveal himself to you on a deeper level.

I will say this. We have a situation in this country that has to be taken care of.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

The glasses were half full, which meant that the guests were completely so

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I was a rebel and I wanted to do something that nobody else did, and nobody else played the cello. Also, I was also a small kid and I liked the fact that it was big.

You won’t be famous until people start saying the worst things they can about you. Don’t worry! It’s a good sign!