No matter how much utter disdain I have for the work of a particular artist, I would still rather that he had created those works than hadn't

The universal methodology of the tyrant is always incrementalism.

Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

The curse of the intelligent man is that he will always find himself surrounded by the ignorant. The measure of the intelligent man is determined by his tolerance toward them.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

If you're going to condemn a people based on the actions of the worst of its ranks; take a good look at the worst of your people first and judge yourself.

Those who are offended by something are most often those who deserve to be offended by it.

An unbending and absolute acceptance of any idea is a sure sign of a small mind, no matter the greatness of intellect possesed by the one accepting that idea.

Reality trumps rationality.

Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.

Too many people today believe that you can fight fascism with fascism. This of course is an impossibility. Fascism times any other number always equals fascism.

And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.

Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key.

I never feel to force my doctrine upon any person; I rejoice to see prejudice give way to truth, and the traditions of men dispersed by the pure principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

I try to focus on practice. This is work time. This is where we work, this is our office. I try not to let it distract me too much.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

Funk is the unending cycle of life.