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.

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

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.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

No one should have to go through life without forgiveness. It's essential

I don't do too much looking back and regretting things - not that I haven't made tons of mistakes. But I do think people are in our lives so we can learn lessons and evolve as better human beings.

There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.

The votaries of nonviolence cannot harbour violence even in thought, let alone the question of doing it.

My Vocation is my Vacation. I love what I do.

You drown him by your talk.

When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history.

At that age, feeling unpopular is difficult to handle. It's a hard feeling to shake off. Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.