For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.
Conventional wisdom would have one believe.
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to.
When a cause comes along and you know in your bones that it is just, yet refuse to defend it--at that moment you begin to die. And I have never seen so many corpses walking around talking about justice.
Contrary to popular belief, conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires… But what history really shows is that today`s empire is tomorrow`s ashes, that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.
Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none.
If they survive, today's children will inherit a world that our fathers and grandfathers have ravaged, where the seas are acidic cesspools that the whales have fled, where rain forests are Indian memories never to return, and where human greed has plundered Mother Earth's innards and turned human genes into factories for profit. They will inherit a diminished planet where fresh water is increasingly rare, and where fresh air is a commodity. . . We live in a world that fears and hates its young. How else can one explain the bequest of such a foul, polluted, and hollow inheritance?
In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.
You know when you see a mother someplace just melting down on her kid? She's like, 'Shut up, I hate you, you're ugly!'. . . Any parents there are thinking, 'What did that shitty kid do to that poor woman? That poor woman. I wish I could help. '
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
The Gulf War is responsible for the huge and horrifying rise in Islamic terrorism.