Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian.

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like.

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.

I distrust a man that says when. If he's got to be careful not to drink to much it's because he's not to be trusted when he does.

Getting even has never healed a single person.

There cannot be too many glorious women.

Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.

I still feel like I have a lot of growing up to do 'til I find the voice. You know, everybody has their own voice and their own thing they want to say to the world.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

Growing up with my dad taught me to either lie like a pro or not bother.

Hegemony is as old as mankind.