Maya Angelou Quotes

I'm a sapiosexual, you know.

Wise thinkers prevail everywhere.

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.

I never met a North Korean who didn’t like pornography. Supplying porn to North Korean officials to entice them to spy for America, along with money or whatever else it might take—yes I was willing to do that.

American political opportunities are heavily loaded against those who are simultaneously intelligent and honest.

The human mind can be sexy.

People say Wu-Tang makes you think too much. What's wrong with thinking?

My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.

Pornography and obscenity...work by specialism and fragmentation. They deal with a figure without a ground - situations in which the human factor is suppressed in favor of sensations and kicks.

Thinking man's crumpet? Well, it's more flattering than being a lobotomised man's crumpet, I suppose.

I love funny women, and just being around them talking is fine with me. I love an interesting mind.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Money will brainwash you and leave your ass mindless.

It's so easy to pick up a camera, white balance, and shoot people having sex, but I don't think there's anything very interesting about it. You might get off, but that's it.

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.

Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.

Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

America is run by the rich and powerful in their own interest. To an extent that I think is hard to exaggerate, the intellectuals - academics, journalists and so on - are bought off. And that's a big change that happened in the United States in the last 30 or 40 years.