An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

There is no break in the wholeness of time.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!

Don't you ever get tired of believing, Madame? Don't you ever want proof?

If God is not the reason, I have no reason! If Jesus Christ is not my friend, I have no friend!

I'd like to do something for inner-city schools and education for young people because it's constantly being cut.

I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.

My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

God is in all nature; thank God for the scientists, for they are thinking the thoughts of God after him, whether they know it or not.

Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

I've got my one area I work in and I want to educate people about autism and I also want to improve, you know, animal handling and transport and make a real change out in the field on the ground.