The word "rights", is something that governments need to provide you and protect you from but, the governments are the basic violators of all human rights.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

There is plenty of dignity in just holding on

So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.

I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.

The brain is a world consisting of a number of unexplored continents and great stretches of unknown territory.

In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. "Are you here to help or what, Stiff?" I say.

True independence is not a gift to be received. It can't be a hand-out to people. It must be an achievement by the people.

You don't pay the price for success, you enjoy the benefits of success.