No matter how substandard you feel your skill or talent may be, If you never produce your art, the world will always remain deprived of it.

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.

The biggest and grandest adventure in life is life itself.

I think it is important for people who are given leadership roles to assume that role immediately.

I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

The arc of the celebrity phenomenon ultimately is: everything turns to dust and everything does go away.

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress.

Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.

Do what you don’t want to do to get what you want to get.

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.

I don't think we've got the concept in the West that male desire degrades men. Or that if men become sexually active, they become debased in some way, or slutty. Or lose status.

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.