Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Be that self which one truly is.