Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

Fullness of joy is discovered only in the emptying of will.

Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

Stand-up used to be much more of a form combat. Heckling was much more common [in the '90s]. And I couldn't get stage time, and so I would go out to Pip's in Sheepshead Bay.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.

Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.