The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

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.

Dance in the rain, follow the path of lovely lanes, you are what you always wanted to be, so chill out, dear friend!

That's where I spent of lot of my high-school years -- in the closet. It wasn't too cramped, but you do get really hot.

Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him

Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.

I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

All experience helps when you write.

I do think it's important to expose kids to artists.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will still be a wild system and respect for what it takes to sustain us.