You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's... very important to ignore the negative.

I am a child of America. If ever I'm sent to Death Row for my revolutionary 'crimes,' I'll order as my last meal: a hamburger, french fries, and a coke.

Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

We create revolution by living it.

Don't trust anyone over thirty

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

The power to define the situation is the ultimate power.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

Our parents are our first oppressors.

The capitalist imperialism is gonna be destroyed.

What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

You will have to defy the odds, for you to be extraordinary.

You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

We rarely wrestle with apology and lose.

I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.

Success leaves clues, but they must be acted upon.