In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

I think that modern medicine has become like a prophet offering a life free of pain. It is nonsense. The only thing I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.

And while I initially resisted, the thought of touching her, of her wanting me to touch her . . . Well, damn, I just wasn't strong enough to abstain from that.

Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!

What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.

I think an artist's responsibility is more complex than people realize.

When it comes to true dance, it's not about how you look, it's all about the joy you feel.

This fight is not going to be over in 10 minutes or 10 weeks; there's no quick solution. If you think it's taking too long, remember, God is with you.

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false.