I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

There's a consensus out that it's OK to kill when your government decides who to kill. If you kill inside the country you get in trouble. If you kill outside the country, right time, right season, latest enemy, you get a medal.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers.

I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

Put tattoos all up and down our thighs, do anything our parents would despise. Take uppers, downers, blues, and reds and yellows, our brains are turning into jello.