The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

Power in America today is control of the means of communication.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

He who is created by television can be destroyed by television.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Quality in a classical Greek sense is how to live with grace and intelligence, with bravery and mercy.

No men can save himself, that's why Jesus was nailed on the cross.

Parent greatest gift to their children is their bond of love.

Those who praise God abide in victory.

Good taste ruins certain true spiritual values: such as taste itself.

The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.

You are the most rare & majestic you there ever was and ever will be.

I feel like I've gotten to the point where when I get tired of making art I can make a smooth transition into making music and vice versa. There is always something to do.

I don't kill soloists only kill squads

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.