And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

Desire lies dormant in our hearts

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

If I notice a cute girl at the meet-and-greet, I might go and talk to her.

Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

All reform aims, in some one particular, to let the soul have its way through us; in other words, to engage us to obey.

Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal.

With fiction, there’s no reason why everything you write shouldn’t be amazing. Nobody’s stopping you from making up better stuff.