Another part of what gave me a questioning, rabble-rousing, activist heart and soul is that when all these heavy events went down, my parents did not shelter the kids from it.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always.

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot.

Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.

if a thing is to be done, there is no time like the hour that has not struck.

Joseph Mattson is a monster of a writer.

Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

We know what we need to do. Let's re-elect President Obama!

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!