I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

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.

Despite centuries of English literature, the most famous split infinitive in all of history comes from Star Trek.

One thing can make many other things happen.

Make mistakes; it's what you do about them that counts.

A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.

Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise!

Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.

I don't play to prove people right or wrong. I just want to win.

The secret known to two is no longer a secret.

There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling

Vin Diesel had to hire a babysitter.