Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.

Sleep without the fragrance of her hair next to him was impossible.

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance.

The only way around it is to stay with one guy forever." But does forever have a built-in ending...?

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

Whatever you are, always be a good one.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

You never understand anybody that loves you.

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

It is the spectators who make the pictures.