Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.

You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t expect someone who doesn’t know what you know to do it for you. Do it yourself.

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

Donald Trump would be a better president every day of the week and twice on Sunday rather than Hillary Clinton.

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

I don't care about money. I really don't care. I just want to do what I do

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Right now, I don't believe [Donald Trump]. I don't trust him.

Honour is that which no man can give you and no man can take away.