"One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards."

“We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.”

“I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.”

“Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.”

“I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.”

Source : Foreign Affairs, 2009.

“What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?”

“Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?”

“I hate living in a really small apartment, living in a shoebox, not being able to play the drums, not having space. It sucks.”

“It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap.”