I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

The US is indeed a terrorist nation. ...It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

I think Bowe Bergdahl, if he deserted, is a hero - I think throughout history we should build monuments to the unknown deserters.

The only path to the final defeat of imperialism and the building of socialism is revolutionary war.

Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. America is a great country.

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

I don't regret setting bombs.

I'm not so much against the war as I am for a Vietnamese victory. I'm not so much for peace as for a U.S. defeat.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." Samuel Johnson

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right

Love changes everything. I never suspected it would be so. Requited love, I should say ...

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.

A painting is life and a painting is death . . . the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living.

I don't really like filling my brain with a lot of stuff.

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.