…little people like me have to keep the true story alive. That way, when the revolution ends, and people come looking for the history, we can say, ‘Here it is – we kept it for you.

Technology is neutral. But the process of technology will cause a free world to become ever freer, and a totalitarian world to become ever more repressive.

By not knowing what we needed to know and knowing what we did not need to know

I want to spit in the face of these badlands.

Wine and youth are fire upon fire.

One day I'll kill him, you know. I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.

He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

For I know that many good things have happened to many, when least expected; and that many hopes have been disappointed.

I don't know how many times a phone call or e-mail starts with, "I don't agree with anything you say but you're funny as hell so I listen to your show, I love your show."