I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

I don't know of any situation where you're going to have an officeholder in a country of eight million people who's cut off at the knees by the most powerful force in this world and who can still make it fly.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.