It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

I always say your body is the temple of your spirit, why not decorate it? My kids say, no, no, your body is the temple of your spirit, keep it clean. I'm covered in tattoos and I get a tattoo every time I write a book. I get the tattoo from the book.

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.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

[Martin Luther King] King was a socialist and King was an activist who was really a radical by the end.

I was a kid and I studied when I had to [live].