Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth.

Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true.

I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

They can't find my house now because I keep it very quiet where I live.

...when your heart changes, you change, and you have to make new plans.

I think I'm optimistic, yeah, especially in real life, but I think it's funny to be pessimistic.

We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun. You just got on with it!

What we believe about heaven and hell is incredibly important because it exposes what we believe about who God is and what God is like.