We don't need unity in theory, we need solidarity in practice.

It's easier to ponder the future than it is to do something about the present.

Instead of worship or ignorance of the past, we must make our own tools, our own stories, and our own legends.

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

The rejection of mass organizations as the be-all, end-all of organizing is vital for the creation and rediscovery of possibilities for empowerment and effective anarchistic work.

Never confuse efficiency with effectiveness.

When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated.

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

No two books come out the same way. Some I write by the seat of my pants; others are planned in minute detail.

I would sing the blues if I had the blues.

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

You can't measure what's inside a man's heart.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move

I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.