Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist? O'Brien: Of course he exists. Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me? O'Brien: You do not exist.

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.

I'm afraid to go into myself and see what's going on in there.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them.

I believe humor nullifies violence.

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

Mandela has played a crucial part in history. He's done some extraordinary things, not only for his country but also for the whole world.