It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves.

Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.

A tardy vengeance shares the tyrant's guilt.

With 'Harry Potter,' I've been all over the world. I probably wouldn't have gone to New York so young if it weren't for the films.

In order to effectively interlock with higher spheres of mind and attention, you must have tremendous balance and control. You learn that it is more fun to have control than not to.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?

A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.