Be as radical as Reality.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.

You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people.

The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

I'm not afraid of Spassky. The world knows I'm the best. You don't need a match to prove it.

The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality

You can't be a creative person and not fall in love with everything. Every movie I've made there's a complicated, twisted love affair with.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.

We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!