The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me.

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

Richness in the world is a result of other people's poverty. We should begin to shorten the abyss between haves and have-nots.

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day

Writing is a marvelous adventure and very labor-intensive: those words run away and try to escape. They are very difficult to capture.