If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist. . . . I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism.

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.

Women are not forgiven for aging. Robert Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Don't give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don't know that when you're young.