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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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Griping isn't the same as creating something. Rebelling isn't rebuilding. Ridiculing isn't replacing. We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
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These economic royalists complain that we seek to overthrow the institutions of America. What they really complain of is that we seek to take away their power. Our allegiance to American institutions requires the overthrow of this kind of power. In vain they seek to hide behind the flag and the Constitution. In their blindness they forget what the flag and the Constitution stand for.
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
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The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
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If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the ***** of the lunatic fringe.
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…What our age needs, what it demands, what it will create for itself, is—terror.
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My dad once told me, he was like, 'The only time you should lie is when someone's holding a gun to your head and says 'Okay, lie or I'm going to shoot you.'' And that really stuck with me.
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I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.