Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

The opposite of good is not evil; it's apathy.

I raised four kids in six years.

Loyalty to the true, core values and roots of democracy is what makes a true patriot, not loyalty to a symbol of the country.

We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain

One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.

I'm working class, my family was working class, and we have struggled the same way our neighbors here in San Francisco have struggled.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.

No matter how crazy or hard a man acts sometimes he has a soft side.

I dream of books!

Don't put forth for tomorrow what you can do today.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

Donald Trump's leadership, decision-making and problem solving will restore America's role as the undeniable and unquestioned world leader.

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

It may be the first in what I trust will be a rapidly growing and influential genre--the novel designed on purpose to be excludedfrom the Booker short-list.

People only know what they see on TV.

For words are magical formulae. They leave finger marks be hind on the brain, which in the twinkling of an eye become the footprints of history. One ought to watch one' s every word.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness.