Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.
Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I've never considered it a neutral or passive profession.
Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at.
The US is indeed a terrorist nation. . . . It's also the greatest purveyor of violence on earth over the past half century, and the foremost threat to world peace today.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.
Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.
We have persistent objects, they're called files.
Forever in debt to your priceless advice.
History and the task of the future no longer signify the struggle of class against class or the conflict between one church dogma and another, but the settlement between blood and blood, race and race, Folk and Folk. And that means: the struggle of spiritual values against each other.
Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.