For Marx, 'pure' economic theory, that is economic theory which abstracts from a specific social structure, is impossible.

Revolution is not a goal in itself.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

Socialist democracy is not a luxury but an absolute, essential necessity for overthrowing capitalism and building socialism.

There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.

Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

And you cannot have a socialist revolution commandeered from the top, ordered around by some omniscient leader or group of leaders

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

As a success-minded person, you should always be looking to not only do your job but do it with excellence and go the extra mile.

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

I just like to build things and do things.

Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

I had a job on a newspaper in Wisconsin, and I started off as most reporters did back then: writing obits and free ad giveaways.