The conscious mind is going to suggest the obvious, the cliché, because these things have offered the security of having succeeded in the past.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

People only speak to get something.

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.