We have a rotting infrastructure that is literally poisoning children in Flint, Newark and elsewhere.

The workers should take over the factories, and shut down Boeing's profit-making machine.

We need a break from Capitalism.

There are limits to reforming a system that is dominated by these massive and rapacious corporations.

While we still live in a capitalist society, we of course will fight for whatever reforms help make life better for working people.

It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.

On the basis of capitalism, victories like raising the minimum wage are only temporary.

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

Like the healthcare industry, the banks should be taken out of the hands of the 1% and brought under democratic public ownership.

Socialism is a society where the resources are used democratically to provide a better life for all, based on ending the dictatorship of big business over the economy and politics.

Capitalism is based on ruthless exploitation and competition, and leads inevitably to the development of mega monopolies.

Find beauty in the madness.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

I saw Chekhov a number of times in English, and I thought that it translates very well in English, for some reason, from the Russian to the English.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

I think only stupid people have good relationships.