I spent a lot of time standing on street corners [of New York City] talking to local residents. I spent time in bookstores and galleries. But most of the time, I really did not have much to do.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.

Everything I thought I'd hate about having children - the crying, the screaming - nothing fazes me. I love it all and it's relaxed me.

In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.