At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

LIFE IS LIKE A FRESH DAY, DEATH IS THE NIGHT WHEN THE DAY ENDS.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

You have to modernise you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

I don't cook, 'cause I don't know how to cook.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

Let those who drink not, but austerely dine, dry up in law; the Muses smell of wine.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.