Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

Why shouldn’t your curiosity about the world be rewarded?

There’s less need to slowly acclimate these guys to the tank, ” Bailey said. “They’ll be food pretty soon, so their happiness is less important than the shark’s.

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos.

Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape.

Director of Ensuring the Future

Grief doesn't arrive on schedule, as much as we'd like to.

For a moment, she thought it natural in a way seeing a plane fall from the sky can seem natural, too. The horror comes later.

I want to be seen. I want proof I existed.

This democracy thing, or Demoxie, whatever it is, good god. Under the guise of having every voice heard, you create mob rule, a filterless society where secrets are crimes.

Now, you and I both know that if you can control the flow of information, you can control everything.

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

I am very proud of the campaign we ran and the supporters that came on board.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.

Women do a lot of uncomfortable things for men - and I appreciate it all. I appreciate high heels. I appreciate thongs.

I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.