Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.

We are born into this world unarmed - our mind is our only weapon.

Whenever a man denounces the mind, it is because his goal is of a nature the mind would not permit him to confess.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Power-lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind.

I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

I think, therefore I'll think.

Animal rage is scary, but not as scary as control.

I'm a singer, a writer and an actress - when I find something that I feel good enough about doing.

If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.

Politicians cannot alter trends.

Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic.

He who wants to learn true humility should reflect upon the Passion of Jesus. (267)

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives

The clubs, that's easy to cut out, because I know when the season ends I can look forward to going out.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.