The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best.

Nobody can honestly say that they never lie.

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

As an editor, you're constantly dealing with the best way to convey an exchange between two people. So when I'm shooting, I'm just aware in the back of my head what an editor might want.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

The Torus is my enemy!

My voice as a filmmaker is always about boys searching for their fathers. And not only boys, but all children looking for those figures in their lives.