When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

All it takes to get elected in twenty-first-century America is a mob of frightened sheep and a wolf with a nice smile.

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

To fight an enemy properly, you have to know what they are. Ignorance is defeat.

It's been a great place to get in touch with what people are really thinking. And to make contact with readers and other writers. Egalitarian, wide open, like the Wild West!

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

Conservatism is not about tradition and morality, hasn't been for many decades... It is about the putative biological and spiritual superiority of the wealthy.

The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.

There is no war so important that to win it, we must destroy our minds.

If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start.

There are no good or bad stocks. The company is either good or bad. Stocks are just stocks.

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

I could probably play an alcoholic. I've had some experience with that.

I'm for the poor man - all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' - that's my slogan.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

Freedom means the right to be stupid.

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider.

I like my job. That's become very clear to me. I know how to pretend to do things that I otherwise didn't know how to do.

Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief