Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

We don't need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.

No one is as simple as they may seem to be.

You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

Like the roller coaster of life...novels aren't fun without ups and downs and even an occasional loop.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Nothing really came, everything was like inspired by something.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Hip-hop is rock & roll. What the hell is Wu-Tang but Motorhead?

We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

I’ve always said to people, "I don’t care what you call me as long as the checks don’t bounce and the family gets fed." But I never saw myself that way. I just saw myself as a novelist.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.