Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

The law is an opinion with a gun.

The whole point of the system is to bribe you with the leftovers of what they have stolen from you in the first place.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

When poverty declines, the need for government declines, which is why expecting government to solve poverty is like expecting a tobacco company to mount an aggressive anti-smoking campaign.

We raise predators by treating children as prey.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

To me sometimes a mute sky is more expressive than the roaring sea

I wanted him to look at me like maybe I was magic.

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia.

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

Life is so full of meaning and of purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find that earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage, then to claim it: that is all!

Say the truth and shame the devil.

You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.

Confidence is sexy. So if you're confident in who you are, that's sexier than anything.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.