Think about the world you want to live and work in. What do you need to know to build the world? Demand that your teachers teach you that.

Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization

The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.

Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor.

The law has no claim to human respect. It has no civilizing mission; its only purpose is to protect exploitation.

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

In existing States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it.

Poverty, the existence of the poor, was the first cause of riches.

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

I understand regicide as a means of obtaining vengeance for the ruin of our lives, but regicide as a means of obtaining political freedom I could never understand.

Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution

For in the forest someone is always watching and someone is always listening!

The brain’s biggest challenge is to order unforeseeable phenomena in foreseeable categories.

And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation.

Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

common sense is a very tricky instrument; it is as deceptive as it is indispensable.