I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.
I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.
There have been times throughout American history where what is right is not the same as what is legal. Sometimes to do the right thing you have to break the law.
Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.
I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded.
The issue is we're losing leverage. Governments are increasingly getting more power and we are increasingly losing our ability to control that power, and even to be aware of that power.
Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.
Of all the dear sights in the world, nothing is so beautiful as children when they are giving something. Any small thing they give. Children give the world to you. They open the world to you as if it were a book you'd never been able to read. But when a gift must be found, it is always some absurd little thing, passed on crooked. . . an angel looking like a clown. Children have so little that they can give, because they never know they have given you everything.
I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.
Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.
One step, two. . . three. . . Soon she was in front of Aeron, smiling at her success. "What was that?" he asked. "Walking. " "Took you so long, I'm officially fifty years older. " She raised her chin, pride undiminished. "Well, I didn't fall.