It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.

All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.

When you're doing wrong, you're gonna think wrong.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.