Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Are you casting asparagus on my cooking?

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

We don't need mass armies anymore. We replace it with more effective equipment.

One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm.

I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her.

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

I'm not into division. I'm into coordination, discipline and tradition.

Besides, you don't work for a dollar - you work to create and have fun.