Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.
Agitators, organizers, activists, intellectuals aren't bound by those rules. We're not trying to figure out, how do I thread this particular needle?
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. . . . It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
Chess is not something that drives people mad; it is something that keeps mad people sane.
Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here, somewhere - real close-up. I really couldn't have done it if I hadn't been through a lot one way or another. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so it's not a pleasant feeling!
Perhaps the earliest memories I have are of being a stubborn, determined child. Through the years my mother has told me that it was fortunate that I chose to do acceptable things, for if I had chosen otherwise no one could have deflected me from my path. . . . The Chairman of the Physics Department, looking at this record, could only say 'That A- confirms that women do not do well at laboratory work'. But I was no longer a stubborn, determined child, but rather a stubborn, determined graduate student. The hard work and subtle discrimination were of no moment.
At some point if you had gone into all of our stories in depth that would've just kind of been all over the place.