When your government, employer, landlord, merchant, banker and local sports team gang up to picture, digitize and permanently record your every activity, you are placed under unprecedented control.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Pessimists try to convince you the world sucks, optimists already know it does and smile anyway.

Sometimes one must become something one fears or loathes in order for the greater self to survive.

Ignorance is bliss, but Enlightenment is nirvana

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I make static art, not dynamic art. That's what I do.

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.