Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.

I watch a spider outside my window, how she carefully weaves a dreamcatcher in the corner. Just for me.

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate very much.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, I wanted to be a marine biologist, an actress, a writer, an environmentalist, an activist.

Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?

I like to say that before we can create an external space in which to receive people, we have to create an internal space in which to receive them.

Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.