"Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty."

“I think everybody who relates to music is kind of isolated. It's lonely. Everyone who uses the creative side of their brain is that much removed from reality. They are looking for answers wherever they can find them.”

“In one year I travelled 450,000 miles by air.”

“There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.”

“We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.”

“Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.”

Source : "David Hoffman on 'The Dead Hand' and End of the Cold War". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. September 21, 2009.

“Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.”

“If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.”

“Please leave me something...even one memory would be enough.”