Freedom

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.

If you can't afford to take care of your veterans, then don't go to war.

Health care is a human right, not a privilege.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

My philosophy is it's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out. It's a big world out there, and I want to be a part of it.

I'm not comfortable being around too many people. I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

What is right in itself needs no command.

The main thing in making art often is letting go of your expectation and your idea.

I'm not interested in living in a swamps of consensus.

We must have a safe theater, and we must have a free theater. Because it is not going too far to say that the salvation of this human world lies in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness, and in human responsibility.

The best thing about acting is that I can lose myself in it. I can become someone else and forget who I am for a while.

Comics are pictures and words. You can do anything with pictures and words.