One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.

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.

When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

You can’t have people curating culture in this way when we need to see things in order to reform from them.

What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.

The past which you carry in your purse is a gift and a curse when you goin' head first.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

God cannot be solemn, or he would not have blessed man with the incalculable gift of laughter.