War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

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.

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

You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious.

This crisis is not just a crisis. Consumers are understanding for the first time that [their] degree of personal happiness doesn't rise past a certain earnings threshold.

We goaltenders tend to be very proud bastards.

In photography we must learn to seek, not the 'picture,' not the aesthetic of tradition, but the ideal instrument of expression, the self-sufficient vehicle for education.

To survive you must find yourself then it won't matter where you are.

I had my own battle tactics.

My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

Baltimore is one of the most beautiful towns, really. And trust me, I don't say that about every place. There is just something so quaint, old and beautiful about this place.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.