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

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.

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

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.

It's harder to hate someone when they like the same ice cream as you.

Language is the light of the mind.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Expertise is the mantra of modern medicine.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

It was close; but that's the way it is in war. You win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash.

Characters are an extreme form in Shakespeare's theater.

Twitter, Facebook and Reddit, that’s not journalism. That's gossip. Journalism was invented as an antidote to gossip.

Everyone in Life does Exactly what they Know How to Do Given the Conditions of their Lives