The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

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.

Feelings and emotionran through my veinslike a hurricane.And that's when everythingbegan to look like poetry.—You look like poetry

Maybe there are entire worlds where there are no fences, where feeling bears you like a tide.

You are the limit to yourself - raise yourself over it.

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.

A tip: if you're invited to your friend's country club to go the lost and found bin and pretend that you left something there. Next thing you know, you have a fabulous sweater.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

The challenge that climate change presents to us, both in Australia and around the world, won't be solved by ramping up the nuclear industry.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

My subject is my life, and my life is my subject.

I don't miss teaching. I'm learning to take my time for myself.