[Prison] relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

If all babies are so cute, how the hell do we have so many ugly people in the world?

Even if I didn't have the support that I have, I would still be fighting the same fights, and I would still be the same person that I am today.

If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky!

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.

I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.