You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.

When an administration embarks on a war justified by little or no intelligence, speaking the truth can be regarded as treachery. The country could use more of that kind of "treachery".

This was the ethos of the intelligence analysis directorate during most of the 27 years I spent there.

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war.

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?

It's the in-between, the sustenance, not just the gears and bolts that make a human. When you forget to find out how the person was built—the oil, chemistry, and the craft—you miss all the beauty.

Most people like normality because they feel safe and comfortable around it.

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

We're all gonna die, let's act accordingly.

Our religion is Christ, our politics Fatherland!

Science should have no less lofty a goal. My ambition is to live to see all of physics reduced to a formula so elegant and simple that it will fit easily on the front of a T-shirt.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Saturday is an illusion.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

I also plan to release a ballads collection.