"With the exception of Obama's belated lame-duck behavior, the US has always, in practice, supported Israel unquestionably."

“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”

“When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.”

“My whole purpose really is to try to help working families to find better jobs and get better benefits and look out for the little guy.”

“Everything that exalts and expands consciousness is good, while that which depresses and diminishes it is evil.”

“One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.”

“To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them into what J. S. Mill called a "moral police," is to make them despotic arbiters of literary products. If one day they ban mediocre books as obscene, another day they may do likewise to a work of genius.”

“Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.8, Spiegel & Grau

“I love what I do, and I intend to keep playing.”