We've been taught in America that big is best. That's why people have to believe that they must live in the greatest country in the world, which is absolutely idiotic.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

People need their history like they need air and food.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent.

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

Democracy requires that if you who don't like the outcome of elections you have to tolerate it and then pursue your interest the next time around.

A wife who discomforts you with truth is better than a mistress who massages you with lies.

One day I'll be appreciated for what I do instead being held back for what I don't do.

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

Words are soldiers of fortune hired by different ideas.

But I don't read or listen for pleasure. I have too much else to do.

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

You've just one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it.

There's a thrill when you have a hard set, a rugged workout, and you feel it, and you take it, and you go beyond it.

For finally, we are as we love. It is love that measures our stature.