I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

When you fall ill, people send you CDs. Very often, in my experience, these are by Leonard Cohen

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

Billy Graham is a boring, racist charlatan.