"I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry.""

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

Source : "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

“Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.”

“The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.”

Source : Barbara Corcoran, Bruce Littlefield (2011). “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business”, p.11, Penguin

“I tried ***** once or twice in England, but didn't like it. I didn't inhale.”

“Ian MacKaye was in London while I was living there. We both decided that even though we had very different lifestyles, we had the same mentality - politically, and in a lot of other different ways. His statement was, "We're going to the same place, except you're taking a taxi, and I'm driving my own car." That's me and Ian MacKaye's relationship. I love him, he's great.”

“Here you had John McCain and Lindsey Graham in a very principled way standing up and defending Barack Obama. You had people like Gene Robinson and a lot of other liberals, who said, and this I personally agree with, however flawed Rand Paul was as a messenger, we need a debate about this. The administration has not been forthcoming enough about its drone policy.”

Source : "Week In Politics: Unemployment, Rand Paul's Filibuster". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. March 8, 2013.

“But why?" "You heard the pay, right? And also, to be near you." Thumbing a tear from my cheek, he added, "Mostly, to be near you.”

“We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him”

Source : "Racial Tactics Backfire", Texas Monthly Vol. 4 No. 7 (p.12), July 1976.