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.

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.

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.

Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

For the ones who dream of stranger worlds.

Socialism, communism, and fascism are the political manifestations of unachievable ideals, carried to genocidal extremes.

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

I think writers are very anxious.

It is not when I am going to meet him, but when I am just turning away and leaving him alone, that I discover what God is. I say, God. I am not sure that that is the name. You will know what I mean.

My serve and my forehand I pretty much always had, but my backhand was a made backhand. I worked on it for years.

The printed newspaper is a powerful showcase for news, opinion and advertising.

Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.

There are many roads that lead to hell, but only one way to go to heaven.