You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.