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'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.

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 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 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.

Lord I thank you for the gift of life.

If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.

You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

Young people, take heart: the older you get, the fewer commandments you will have the strength to break.

One of the ways to avoid being beaten by the system is to laugh at it.

Despite its scientific pretensions, economics still remains more of an art than a science

You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it.

I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.