Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

Truth between candid minds can never do harm.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

It's the rule of bird shit.

In Australia the Man Booker is sometimes seen as something of a chicken raffle. I just didn’t expect to end up with the chicken.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

I am the only actor who ever had to lose weight to play Orson Welles.

She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I growled before I could stop myself.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on.

And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.

Socialism as I understand it is a system of democracy. Without democracy, there is no socialism.