I'm an optimist in my heart - I'm a hopeless pollyanna just like my mother - but a pessimist in my head. I think that's the dialectic we all need to be in.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

I don't regret setting bombs.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Jacques wants a pancake shaped like Mozart's Symphony No. 40! In G minor!

Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

Whites they pretended to ignore, as they busily lived mirror-image white lives.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

Running is for animals. You need a brain and a ball for football.

Never has there been one possessed of complete sincerity who did not move others. Never has there been one who had not sincerity who was able to move others.

Even a single hair casts its shadow.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.