Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

You discuss philosophy about what you read but never really live the wisdom.

Each person was meant to blossom into their own unique signature of greatness.

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

As a scientist, I don't believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.

I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.

There is a difference between your parents' not reporting to you everything they do and keeping secrets from you.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.

I feel like personally I have more drive now than I did then probably because I care more and also because I've reached the mid-life point.