And yet, what is bravery but the capacity to reject our fears, ignore and supress them, then go on to do whatever it is we are afraid to do.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Government is waging war against the people.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

When you become the source of joy, when you become the source of peace, your world and world around you become joyful and peaceful. you become the symbol and messenger of joy and peace.

The Lord can cause a vision to turn into reality

Creators almost always go mad.

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

It's no longer just reporting the headlines of the day, but trying to put the headlines into some context and to add some perspective into what they mean.

No more prizes for predicting the rain, only prizes for building the arks

As long as you're worrying about losing what you got, you'll never be able to see that what's out there waiting for you is a hundred times better.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

History is remembered by its art, not its war machines.