It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive.

There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Truth shines light on darkness by questioning it.

The only thing that holds back from your success is fear of the unknown

Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all.

Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...

When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the difficulties. That man will become Grand Vizier or Pope.

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

Method will teach you to win time.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

New York is a lot more fun than L.A.

I wanted my work to be seen for free in a public space, I want to be up there with Pollock and de Kooning, one of the big boys.