I've opposed black regimes and white regimes, leftist regimes and rightist regimes. I'm close to Aristide because I have respect for him, but all that is beside the point.

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

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.

Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is.

Be warned. Beware. Enter this kingdom only if you dare.

The fact that you are not perfect may come as a surprise to you but it is not a surprise to anyone else.

People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

It's like never hearing a Joy Division album or something. I'm finally watching Twin Peaks, and I'm so into it.

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

What's [the Beatles'] I Am the Walrus all about?

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?