“Computers are to design what microwaves are to cooking.”

“Worry is a misuse of the imagination.”

“Does the artist have a responsibility for the ignorance of the person watching the art? I don’t want to have to dumb down my work for the people who won’t get it. I want to put it out there and the people who get it, get it.”

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.”

“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.”

“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.”

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”

‎”Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea.”

“If Stench calls, take a message”

“Romney has proved himself right: We manifestly do have a problem with people who see themselves as victims even as they benefit from loopholes in the tax code. One is running for president.”

“The Dow Jones just hit a 4 yeah high, which means Obama is the crappiest socialist in history.”

“Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.”

“Mitt Romney has so little economic patriotism that even his money needs a passport. It summers on the beaches of the Cayman Islands and winters on the slopes of the Swiss Alps.”

“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much higher consideration.”

“I understand the effects of globalization. I understand all that, but at the end of the day, you can’t have a society and you can’t have a civilization without a reasonable amount of economic fairness, full employment, purpose and civic responsibility.”

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.”

“If your party can run the nation for eight years, and then have a national convention and not invite Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Karl Rove or Tom DeLay, you’re not a political movement. You’re the witness protection program.”