Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

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.

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.

People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.

I will not dumb myself down to make someone else more comfortable with their ignorance.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.

Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?

There is no greater hiding place for a secret than within the mind of a madman.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Success unshared is failure.

I should venture to assert that the most pervasive fallacy of philosophic thinking goes back to neglect of context.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.