Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

It's worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart.

The fruit of youth or of the grape, the transitory magic of the brief passage from darkness to darkness - the old illusion that truth and beauty were in some way entwined.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

I like to go to bed early.

The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.

My Caps Lock Key Is Loud!

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists Of twain of things: of bodies and of void In which they're set, and where they're moved around.