War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

The evil of predatory global capitalism and empire has spawned the evil of terrorism

Make it so obvious even a computer couldn't be confused.

Fan mail is one thing, but fans you meet in person are a different matter entirely.

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

I've got two families.

A scientist is just a kid who never grew up.

And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

The happiness of one does not mean the unhappiness of the others.

It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

I play opposite Beverly D'Angelo, and that was definitely a great time.