Action is the only reality not only reality but morality as well.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

I felt guilty all of a sudden, as if just by existing and talking to him I was leading him on.

Home is not a place. Home is security, predictability, reliability, dependability, safety, permanence combined together.

Pride achieves almost nothing but destroys a lot.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.

True wisdom always leads us to please God.

I think kids should be doing pickup or futsal all the time.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

But when we set out to understand somebody’s inside? Is that a trip that ever ends? Is the soul a place of facts? Or are the alleged facts only the deceptive shadows of our stories?

Every birth is a getting to know.