Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

Bush has done more to create passions for what they call terror than any other Administration in this nation's history. I get rather afraid when the most powerful man in the world talks to, and gets answers back from, God.

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

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. The business class is combined with the evangelicals. And I think the evangelicals want to provoke an immense global disaster to precipitate the second coming of Christ. So they are very happy about what we're doing to Iraq - and the menace we present now for Syria and for Iran - because they think that the apocalypse is an important thing to get into so that they can see vindicated their most literal interpretation of the Bible.

I think people involved with institutions find it harder to know the time to go than the time to come.

Where does a black soul go to rest?

I've never had any trouble opposing people I've been close to. I've never worried about offending or bothering people I feel strongly about.