I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself.

Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.

My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism.

If you can cut the people off from their history, then they can be easily persuaded.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak.

Follow your own path, no matter what people say.

The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.

You have all the time in the world when you know what you are doing.

Writing and art are my lovers

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school’s curriculum.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

You might be a redneck if your wheelbarrow breaks and it takes four relatives to figure out how to fix it.

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

The fact I myself do not understand what my paintings mean while I am painting them does not imply that they are meaningless.