Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.