Abstraction is an exercise in a pre-assured failure. It is a futile attempt to communicate the non-communicable

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

Those who are offended by something are most often those who deserve to be offended by it.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Reality trumps rationality.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.

In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours.In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I feared. Page 135

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.

I didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them.

Art, at any rate in a novel, must be indissolubly linked with craft.

We are in an era where censorship is creeping back in through the Patriot Act and where people are.. being intimidated not to speak about what we should be speaking about.

the first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.

To have kids and not be there every night is tough.