The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

But remember, this power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below. When people stop obeying, they have no power.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Education can, and should be, dangerous.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

The problem in this world is not civil disobedience...th e problem in this world is civil obedience.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

It is really hard to talk about reincarnation because you have always been and you will always be. You just experience different things in different ways.

If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

You can make them so small that they almost disappear, but I think headlights are also part of the face of a car.

Some of the best stuff can be written out of dire times

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.

We live in America, one of the good things what we have with all the people is we have dialogue.