For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

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.

I have a vivid picture of what I want.

The key to genius is knowing how to make connections.

Got Chucks on with Saint Laurent; got kiss myself I'm so pretty.

There's something about black. You feel hidden away in it.

I was lucky to receive help at the beginning of my career and now I want to help other writers as much as I can.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

I like multinational companies. They may have 40 to 60 percent of their engines of growth in the United States, but I do like the diversification of being more global.

Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore not permitted.

Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.

I love dudes who are about winning and that is Kobe Bryant !