I don't come from a privileged background.

Killing a cop just because he's a cop, that'll happen. And that should happen. And there's nothing inhuman about it at all. It's survival. It's the most human thing in the world.

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer.

Americans love to read about violence.

The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

I wish that I had bridged the feminist movement and the anti-war movement better than I did.

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

There are plenty of mothers who should not be allowed to raise their children.

I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.

I've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.

Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.