[E]lections amount to little more than choosing between the scum that floats to the top of the barrel and the dregs that settle to the bottom.

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

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.

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.

the one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.

Wise people listen to your words. Learned people listen to their interpretation of your words.

It may be of interest to future generals to realize that one makes plans to fit circumstances stances and does not create circumstances to fit plans. That way danger lies.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist

All the honey that can be gathered from the flowers of this world has less sweetness than the vinegar and gall of Jesus Christ our Lord.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.