Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

One thing a goal must do is fill us with positive emotion when we think about it. The more intensely we feel about a goal the more progressively we’ll move toward it.

I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.

I played basketball to try to get my parents from working so hard.

Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.

The Internet made the world smaller, so it's easier for people to hear your music. You don't necessarily need a radio record.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state