On a planet that increasingly resembles one huge Maximum Security prison, the only intelligent choice is to plan a jail break.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

People who've been through our educational system, they think they're thinking, when they're just repeating like parrots.

Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.

I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.

The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.

The function of law and theology are the same: to keep the poor from taking back by violence what the rich have stolen by cunning.

The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Faith is the flip side of fear.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

Self-hate is a form of mental slavery that results in poverty, ignorance, and crime.

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.