We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Government is waging war against the people.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Search yourself with other persons and you will find the right you.

You have a choice! Deal with life's problems ... or life will deal with you.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

[Albert Camus] always held a profound commitment [engagement], a real resistance to all totalitarianism.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

All human kingship risks a denial of the sovereignty of God.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.

I still think I'm going to do something else when I grow up