The sad thing about Trump is that everybody is secretly really relieved he got elected, of the people I know - the professional left and academic left.

I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.

I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.

Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

The technology will break gun control. I stand for freedom.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

History should be about every generation's will to power.

When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.

I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."

All activism is fake activism.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

My best creation is my children.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

Wise travelers always stop short before they come to danger.

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?

I think it's fair to say that Nina Simone was a prodigy.

When I was recording from '70 to '82, I always played piano and laid the tracks down. But I used to talk to the other musicians while the track was playing.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.