There's a huge swath of humanity that has developed verbal abilities to extract resources from guilt-ridden people.They used to be priests, and now they're leftists.

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.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

It takes nothing to stay in poverty, but everything to break free from it.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.

Ideally, you want to be in a fifty-fifty power-sharing arrangement with the audience - both of you are there for a mutually enjoyable experience.

What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.

When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.

I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day.

I don't feel active, and that my public conscience is fully satisfied.