See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning.
Power factions fight back with lies.
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
What are the differences between Mark Zuckerberg and me? I give private information on corporations to you for free, and I'm a villain. Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he’s Man of the Year.
You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.
We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we have and to do something that is meaningful and satisfying. This is something that I find meaningful and satisfying. . . I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable. And I enjoy crushing bastards.
The only way to keep a secret is to never have one.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.