We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Everything in life is just for a while.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

Reality is just a point of view.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

To fight the Empire is to be infected by its derangement.... Whoever defeats the Empire becomes the Empire; it proliferates like a virus.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

…we all lie to ourselves; we tell our own selves more lies than we ever do other people.

Don't expect anything except yourself.

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

This is what I like about photographs. They're proof that once, even if just for a heartbeat, everything was perfect.

You don't have to swim faster than the shark, just faster than the person you're with.

I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.

You mean was an instant of my purity worth a lifetime of your lies?

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.