I think the business community knows that half the world's oil reserves are gone. All the low-hanging fruit has been picked, and now there's the scramble for what remains.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

Mother Nature is relentless and forward. When we do not live according to her laws she rewards us with disease.

There is no thought or situation that you can't put up against inquiry. Every thought, every person, every apparent problem is here for the sake of your freedom.

I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

I always start tours with a great deal of anticipation.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

To play in the World Cup and try to win something for England was the ultimate.

I need space between me and the audience - and the more space the better.

There is no almost in giving your all.