Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.

There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.

America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by a man incapable of it.

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

A lawyer's opinion is worth nothing unless paid for.

Let them hate me, provided they respect my conduct.

If you want your blog to be a business one day, treat it as one today.

We are now speeding down the road of wasteful spending and debt, and unless we can escape we will be smashed in inflation.

Lust is a thing of the blood. Doesn't need head or heart.

Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!

I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last.

A bitter drug oft brings relief.