I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus.

Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

I hate when bands make beige, middle-of-the-road music. I guess you can say 'Lonerism' is the war on beige music.

As soon as we stop trying to put boxes and labels to every relationship and dynamic, we'll be so much more liberated and at peace.

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.