To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

We are all One and others are simply reflections of ourselves. When the mirror is cleared, the reflection becomes clean too.

How wil we ever get out of this labyrinth of suffering?

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

If I was a girl I'd still swing both ways anyway.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

We need steel spines, not weak knees when it comes to political independence in the Department of Justice.

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.

You have witchcraft in your lips