The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

Realizing you have something in common with another person makes you more human than you were yesterday.

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed.

I'm letting the songs breathe and change and become what they are without force.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

I love films like Deliverance where you can watch it over and over again and decode all of its many different meanings.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.