One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But you still love them.

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.

There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.

I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

Training for a marathon is much like climbing a ladder. Each ring is a short-term goal that must be met in sequence in order to reach the long-term goal at the top of the ladder.

Five exclamation marks: the sure sign of an insane mind.

We're far worse than we ever imagined, and far more loved than we could ever dream.

I've always thought of the audience. I just want to entertain the audience. That's what it's about: what's good for the movie, what's best for the movie, what's best for the audience.

Pleasure is labour too, and tires as much.