The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

And she is going to dance, dance hungry, dance full, dance each cold astonishing moment, now when she is young and again when she is old.

I'm dying, but so are you

There are two words for everything.

If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

He's a guy who gets up at 6 a.m. regardless of what time it is -

...in a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart.

What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.

We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.