Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make new deposits.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Let your eyes be the camera and your imagination be the set.

Party-spirit . . . which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

I love history. I love art. I like to mix it all together, but in the end it somehow has to all make sense.

Facebook is a CRM for people. The days of the anonymous web is over. People expect more.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

I don't think people should confuse fantasy and reality because no one is perfect - we all know that.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

My images are unashamedly idyllic and romantic, a kind of enchanted Africa. They're my elegy to a world that is steadily, tragically vanishing.