We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

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.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

No one is a doer in this world. To claim, ‘I am doing’ is egoism. Illusion continues to prevail under the umbrella of egoism.

Most customers, by the time the musicians reach the second set, are to some extent inebriated. They don't care what you play anyway.

To have a firm persuasion in our work - to feel that what we do is right for ourselves and good for the world at exactly the same time - is one of the great triumphs of human existence.

Why hasn't anyone opened a night club named 'No Drugs Allowed, Wink, Wink'?

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

We don't understand enough about the Islam religion and Muslim world.

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.