Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

I believe there's something very salutary in, say, beating up a gay-bashing policeman. Preferably one fights through the courts, through the laws, through education, but if at a neighborhood level violence is necessary, I'm all for violence. It's the only thing Americans understand.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.