You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

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.

Maybe he's not coming, ' I whispered to Damar. 'He's crazy after all. Maybe something shiny caught his attention and he forgot about me.

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

And I know what confidence medals can bring.

Reputation should be neither sought nor avoided.

When you value people, you give them freedom.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

I always write with images. I cannot write a book if I don't have images.

I've got to the stage in life where all my friends are rich or dead

There are bands, like R.E.M., who want to have 17 records, and some are terrible and some are great. I don't know if people think like that anymore. Things are more atomized now.