People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there.

The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

History should be about every generation's will to power.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."

All activism is fake activism.

I can fight for something in the name of democratization, although I don't use that word a lot anymore. Come on, man. I hate democratic capitalism.

The confidence God gives is the courage to dare a greater life.

Good is no hermit. It has ever neighbors.

I would keep in mind to a young poet that you are entering into something that is very important, that has always been important in terms of human concerns.

Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion.

To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth

Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive-it's such an interesting world.

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach.

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.