When Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar was asked why there was so much animosity in her country towards the United States, she gave a one-word answer: “drones.”

I wonder if you are ashamed of calling a Democratically elected government a fascist government.

We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.

I think that you hear more opposition to the government in Venezuela than you would here in the United States. That's in the TV, in the radio and in the print media.

Israel is run by war criminals...

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

John Brennan has been the mastermind of the drone program. He's the one who'd convene the terror Tuesday meetings at the White House.

Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

I wouldn't characterize anybody who fought in Vietnam as a war hero. In 23 bombing sorties, there must have been civilians that were killed and there's no heroism to that.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Peace is the highest religion. Peace is the glory of humanity.

Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.

You are not truly a Warhol superstar unless you are dead.

All true children of God have God for their father and Mary for his mother; anyone who does not have Mary for his mother, does not have God for his father.

The family is on its way out; couples go next; then no more keeping cats or parrots.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.