And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention

No one's going to shoot at me.

Aw, no one's gonna shoot at me.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

Whatever yerz’re lookin’ for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight’ve never lost it!

I still have my little red hardcover notebook—spine now held in place by packing tape, pages dotted with cooking stains—filled with her loving instructions for mandelbrot, nut cake, and strudel.

I suppose I had some meaning when I wrote it

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Isn't Hollywood - and I love movies - a lot of it about a big lie?

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

We need to treat each other with consideration. In my world, the squeaky wheel does not get the grease.