The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.
The good old days are now.
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it... Because the dream is within you. No one can take your dream away.
What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.
The smaller the mind, the greater the ego.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.
Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."
If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth
There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.
An overnight success is ten years in the making.
Washington D.C. is about 300 square miles surrounded by realty.
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.
When you have stopped learning you have begun to die.
We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.
About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldn't change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln - or against FDR. . . . That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another . . . the true independents. . . . That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.
Every person you meet - and everything you do in life - is an opportunity to learn something.
Wars are begun by frightened men.
(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.
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