I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Mankind adores its betrayers, and murders its saviors.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything’s on its head, it’s a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

I have always believed that good is only beauty put into practice.

Respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins.

Hopefully someone on their team addresses it, because, uh, I'm not saying I'm going to do it, but something might happen to him if he continues to be that cocky.

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.

I don't believe that anyone is not bothered by critics. I think that everybody cares.

I'm a believer and I think that faith is not a bad thing. But faith when we use it to make rules and control people, then it might become a bad thing.

If Hillary [Clinton] gets elected what she's promised to do with the [New York] banks is going to make London boom.