"There is so much time and so little to do; strike that, reverse it."

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."

"My utterance is mighty, I am more powerful than the ghosts; may they have no power over me."

"I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance."

"There's nothing so wrong that it can't be easily fixed or easily ignored. I just let things roll off."

"I belong to an ancient, idle, wild, and useless tribe... I am a storyteller."

"There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction."

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

"Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses."

"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

"The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work."

"I'm as pure as the driven slush."