"Some people can have a dark side, completely the opposite of the image they portray."

“If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.”

“I have this disease-like need to try to create something new. When you're kind of being chased, and everything you do goes so well, you develop this sickness and a sense of need to constantly do something different.”

“My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.”

“We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap.”

“I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.”

Source : Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

“The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.”

“No government can be free that does not allow all its citizens to participate in the formation and execution of her laws.”

Source : Thaddeus Stevens (1998). “The Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens, Volume 2: April 1865-August 1868”, p.214, University of Pittsburgh Pre

“The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.”