[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The objection to propaganda is not only its appeal to unreason, but still more the unfair advantage which it gives to the rich and powerful.

I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.

Just telling the facts are no longer enough. You now have to be persuasive, charismatic, interesting, and funny. Just telling people things isn't enough anymore.

The longer I operated on Wall Street the more distrustful I became of tips and inside information of every kind. Given time, I believe that inside information can break the Bank of England

You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"

I never know when I'll find myself jumping out of a helicopter or something. It's like we're making a new action movie every week, which is pretty thrilling.

Trying and acheiving are two different things.