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“Seattle is beautiful. You look at the sky and it's one of the most beautiful skies in the world, and then there's the Puget Sound, which will kill you, if you fall into it, but it's also beautiful. Seattle is a city of contradictions. It's the most liberal and most literate city in America, and it has Starbucks and [Bill] Gates, but it's also where the Green River killer hunted women and where the runaway population is just shocking when you walk the streets. Within the same city, there's darkness and light.”
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“The idea that the State originated to serve any kind of social purpose is completely unhistorical. It originated in conquest and confiscation-th at is to say, in crime. It originated for the purpose of maintaining the division of society into an owning and exploiting class and a property-less dependent class - that is, for a criminal purpose.”
Source : "The Criminality of the State". "The American Mercury" Magazine, March 1939.
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“I lived in Minnesota in a small town.”
Source : "Riding Along with Steve Zahn". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. May 14, 2009. 
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“No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part.”
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“What you dream, you can grow. Someone told me that, but I didn't believe it. I said I had nothing and that people with nothing are unable to dream. But I was wrong.”
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“Faith is rarely where your head is at. Nor is it where your heart is at. Faith is where your ***** is at!”
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“What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?”
Source : James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.176, Open Road Media
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“What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.”
