Once you give an NFL player permission to have thoughts, you invite all kinds of mischief.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

If I have found favor in thy sight, and if it be possible, and if I be meet therefore, shew me then whether there be more to come than is past, or more past than is to come.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.

It's all the same when you're lonely

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

Personally, one of the most helpful things I learned was three-act structure. For my first four or so novels, I built the structure intuitively.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

One skill you want to master in this day and age we live in, if you want to have an extraordinary life, is the ability to learn rapidly