Organizing is always a relationship between the person who arrives and says 'Let's meet together' and the person who comes to the meeting.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed.

The softest grass can break any stone in her quest to find the sun. Rise again, woman, RISE AGAIN!

Why did Mitt Romney strap his dog to the roof of his car? Could it be because his station wagon was full of wives?

Don't we all have an itch for kitsch?

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.