Fantasy is the only truth.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

Your style guide is your most loyal brand protector.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.

Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.

Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Fifty years ago, the spoken word reigned, but during the last fifty years, the power has gone over to pictures.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

I thought jet planes were just trucks with more wings and less wheels.