I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.

What's the point in having a mind if you don't use it to make judgements?

don't let what other people think, stop you from doing the things you love

You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

perturbed to put trust on people nowadays, people changes partner as per necessity. :(

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself.

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

Some PhD physicists write software or work for hedge funds, but physics still has a problem with having very smart people but not enough opportunities.