"The true measure of a society is how it treats its minorities, not how it treats its majorities."

"I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology."

"I am a communist in the same way that a Christian is a Christian. It's a belief, not a political program."

"It's not the same thing: coffee without cream or coffee without milk. What you don't get is part of the identity of what you get."

"The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know?"