Bread – like real love – took time, cultivation, strong loving hands and patience. It lived, rising and growing to fruition only under the most perfect circumstances.

Wife: a former girlfriend

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

I am on the side of the underdog except when I am on the side of the rich

Several very good friends of mine have died of AIDS. I spent a great deal of time with them when they went through that process.

Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.

A child is owed the greatest respect; if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, don't ignore your son's tender years.

Whenever people listen to one another humbly and openly, their shared values and aspirations become all the more apparent. Diversity is no longer seen as a threat, but as a source of enrichment.

I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well.

But I know loving someone means losing a part of myself.