In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.

The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

Unfettered capitalism is a revolutionary force that consumes greater and greater numbers of human lives until it finally consumes itself.

I don't fight fascists because I'll win. I fight fascists because they are fascists.

We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

Sometimes our highest goal becomes our big enemy when we move towards our goal blindly without focusing on the path we follow.

What place, then, for a creator?

If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don’t hesitate to play the character you wish to play.

Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

Let men see what's coming to them, and women will get what's coming to them.

Unraveling the web of Penelope.

In the morning I get out of bed, I brush my teeth, I wash my face, I get dressed in the clothes I like best. I want to be good to myself.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

I don't know that I am a great leader at all, I just know I really care about what I do.