General Sayings

I'm not a science fiction writer. I've only written one science fiction book in my life, and that's 'Fahrenheit 451.' All the others are fantasy.

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

The peasants are like animals; they understand nothing but the whip.

The Irish are a barbarous people, unfit for civilization.

I would not fear a pack of lions led by a sheep, but I would always fear a flock of sheep led by a lion.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.

To be a writer is to be a criminal. To be a writer is to be a transgressor. It's to be someone who goes across the line.

It’s not as if I’m trying to be mysterious. I’m just trying to be myself.

Some people are saying that the film 'Joker' is dangerous, and it is. Because it's so good. It's so good.

Not all those who wander are lost.

The black man is a child, and must be treated as such.

All for one, and one for all.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

Omne solum forti patria est.

The earth is a tavern, and we are all drunkards. Some are drunk with wine, others with ambition, still others with love.

What sholde I speke of the synne of glotonye, that is so greet a synne?

For what can be more unjust than to throw the blame of a bad cause upon the fault of the first man?

I could name a country which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without salt.

There are two kinds of fools: one knows not what he does, and the other knows not what he says.