Give a man a mask, and he'll tell you deeper and darker truths. But he'll also be more abusive, unaccountable, and demonic.

What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness.

A douchebag has an image to maintain. He is not real. He is the kind of guy who will change his last name into something cooler and more impressive.

You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

Often, very often, we are punished as much by our sins as we are for them.

I have a great deal of difficulty recognizing faces, especially if I haven't - if I've just met somebody, it's hopeless.

Fiction is about what it is to be a human being.

Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.

I don't want to send my money to a bunch of Hugo Chavez-loving, Ivy League ideologically educated, politically opportunistic careerist in Washington, D.C.

There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.