“I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.”

“Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.”

“If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.”

“Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff ...”

“Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.”

“There's nothing wrong with stretching the truth. We stretch taffy, and that just makes it more delicious.”

“I don't see money as evil or good: how can illusion be evil or good? But I don't see heroin or meth as evil or good, either. Which is more addictive & debilitating, money or meth? Attachment to ill...”

“But even a medicine man like myself has to have some money, because you force me to live in your make-believe world where I can't get along without it.”

“To be the master of tomorrow's dreams, you must first be the servant of today's planning.”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”