There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

A story is told as much by silence as by speech.

And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature weeping. Nature speaking of nature to nature.

It is a grief over the fate of the Earth that contains within it a joyful hope, that we might reclaim this Earth.

The secret of all greatness is knowing what to do with time.

Discipline transforms the gifted to the great.

Work is the best thing to make us love life.

Free trade or the free market means the sovereignty of the consumer.

I started smoking as soon as I went on the stage. I'd make cigars out of the Morning World when I was a kid.

Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.

Russians understand strength, and if they feel that their opponents are weak, they will take advantage of it.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

The roughest thing I ever said to an umpire was, 'Are you sure?'