Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Government is waging war against the people.

Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.

I'm tired of living in a police state.

[N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp.

The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them.

The way I played the game, the way I live my life, is very emotional.

I don't think many actors are the best judge of careers. I think generally we have good instincts about what we can do in terms of acting. And often they become directors, which I don't want to be.

I am the greatest marital artist in the world.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

Neither the Destruction of the Ninth Ward Nor the South Bronx Was Inevitable

There's so much that you can do if you mimic your style to a drum machine. I think that's far more exciting.

Greatness is not always largeness.

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.