Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice.

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.

The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.

Government is in reality established by the few; and these few assume the consent of all the rest, without any such consent being actually given.

These so-called governments are in reality only great bands of robbers and murderers, organized, disciplined, and constantly on the alert.

Vices are simply the errors which a man makes in his search after his own happiness. Unlike crimes, they imply no malice toward others, and no interference with their persons or property.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. Neither are a people any the less slaves because permitted periodically to choose new masters.

He should have known. She was the only wanna be immortal he’d ever known.

Only with calmness can you control your emotions.

Sometime we must visit old memories to make new ones.

True badassery has no gender.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

I remember going to see Amiri Baraka. It wasn't actually too long before he died. He said, "You've got to write to change the world!" I was like, "Not me, no, no, no, no."

I got my first laugh when my mother entered me in a baby contest.

If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.

When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.