Those who have nothing have only their discipline.

Love without risk is an impossibility, like war without death.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Liberal capitalism is not at all the Good of humanity. Quite the contrary; it is the vehicle of savage, destructive nihilism.

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Emancipatory politics always consists in making seem possible precisely that which, from within the situation, is declared to be impossible.

In love, fidelity signifies this extended victory: the randomness of an encounter defeated day after day through the invention of what will endure.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

Sometimes you have to swallow the unswallowable.

I took up leprosy work. Not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is: I did it to overcome fear.

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

President-elect [Donald] Trump won 30 of 50 states, more counties since Ronald Reagan.

Singers- nothing sounds like you. For better or worse-there is only 1 of you. Don't homogenize your sound by making it just like the next.

Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.