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“You write your first novel with the desperation of the damned. You're afraid that you'll never write anything else, ever again.”
Source : Patricia Duncker (2017). “Hallucinating Foucault”, p.72, Bloomsbury Publishing
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“It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still hold. When I was young its name was socialism. We can be deflected by names. But the need was absolute, and is still absolute.”
Source : Raymond Williams (2013). “Loyalties”, p.331, Random House
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“Also, as a result of the involvement of American foundations that have backing from the U.S. State Department in Iranian internal politics, cultural exchange and dialogue have become more and more problematic.”
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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
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“I will work to bring peace to everyone - whatever economic level - as long as you are Haitian.”
Source : "Aristide bid to win over Haiti critics" by Owen Bowcott, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2000.
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“You have to be willing to sacrifice as much to prevent war, as soldiers are willing to sacrifice to wage war.”
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“I don't even know what I don't even know.”
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“I think the education system is great just the way it is. There's kids in my neighborhood in Los Angeles, seven years old, that can already speak fluent Spanish.”