The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

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.

Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.

Men? One never knows where to find them. The wind blows them away. They have no roots, and that makes their life very difficult.

The programming of the consciousness is based upon what is accepted or believed.

Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.

I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.

The smallest thought could not exist unless the entire universe and the laws of physics were in some way encouraging it.

Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.

Never in the history of the United States have we cut back on troops when we've been at war.

Is that too much to expect? That I would name the stars for you? That I would take you there? The splash of my tongue melting you like a sugar cube?

America is the greatest nation in the history of the world. There's nothing like America.