Any system of ethics must account for scarcity. If it doesn’t, humanity would perish due to misallocation of finite resources, including one’s own body.

Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.

Because rights are only claims against other people, and not claims on other people and their property, rights end when they infringe on the rights of others.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

If you believe that you are not omnipresent, omniscient, and ultimately omnipotent, then you are deluded.

Don’t Give Someone Responsibility without Requisite Authority

Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.

I fought Sugar [Ray Robinson] so many times that I'm lucky I didn't get diabetes

The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.