To say that poverty explains terror is to slander those caught in poverty who choose to lead worthy lives. [Terrorists] are not the oppressed, but they are the parasites of the oppressed.

Reading to kids is to ordinary reading what jazz is to a string quartet.

One of the reasons that any person writes anything is to try and keep his own sanity together.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.

No matter what happens to us, I will ensure that she will never forget this moment in her life. That she will think of this day, this evening, this moment...

Be young at heart. Remember back when you were young and what made you happiest then. Recapture the simplicity and wonder of youth and make it a state of mind.

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had been to Russia, China, Nicaragua and several other countries.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

When we take out school psychologists, truant officers, counselors, art, music, and athletics, and bring in the police, the school gets turned into a feeder system for the penal system.

The Castro government is disproportionately white given the color of the island. It doesn't look like Cuba.

Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

I'm scared of people with power making the decision.

No one can make us angry. It is our choice.

O Day after day we can't help growing older. Year after year spring can't help seeming younger. Come let's enjoy our winecup today, Nor pity the flowers fallen.