Turkey is using the Islamic State in the same way as Pakistan used the Taliban in Afghanistan. You know, that's perhaps Turkey's strategy.

Leadership is another word for preparation.

I consider this a kind of neoliberalism of the Left, this rise and promotion of spontaneity above preparation.

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

Where there is a living memory of struggle, they have a living memory of the rebellion. Where there's no struggle afterward the rebellion is forgotten.

To build a mass movement, nonviolence is indispensable.

To be a Communist or to be somebody who believes in the future is a curious thing. So you have to live with people around you, you have to be with the people.

I understand politically that uprisings take place as a combination of spontaneity and preparation, not that preparation is more important than spontaneity.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

You see often it's not ideas, it's inertia, it's bureaucratism, it's all the other things that sometimes come in the way of a good idea.

Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.

He made his character his platform.

Adrenaline wants to kill you...

Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

There have been some gains made in terms of more equality for women in the workplace and in the way the legal system deals with issues of violence against women.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing.

I eat a lot of junk food, because that's what's usually available at 1:00am when I'm all done working.

I had a fear of being alone.

Obeying the rules might be smart, but it's not as nearly as much fun.

In both places [Paraguay and Newfoundland] people rise despite everything - both are pretty tough environments.