There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

With great enthusiasm, pursue your dreams.

Boy, did she love those idiots.

And I realize, so suddenly that it hurts, just how empty a creature can be, while still filled to the brim with drowning agony.

I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that.

What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

The meanest authors have at least this similarity with the great author of heaven and earth, that they usually say after a completed day of work: "And behold, what he had done was good.

Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

You create this situation where you are so dependent on each other. That's especially true for film. In theater, the actor has much more say, much more control, for better or worse.