In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and gained their lust And died in baseness-and their law is dust.

That's why they call it work, because it's not what you'd prefer to do with your free time.

If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.

If the quality is there, the consumer will want it, buy it and pay for it.

It's okay to be ambitious, it's okay to be over-prepared.

Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.

Believe it or not, I even love the editing stage. It's something that apparently comes naturally to me.

Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.

I was married at 16, a father at 17 and divorced at 18.

Fresh October brings the pheasant, Then to gather nuts is pleasant.