"I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs."

“I'm one of the most sensitive human beings on Earth -- and I know it.”

“Snowden is not the disease. We don't have traitors or whistleblowers blooming all over because they are some sort of malady. The disease is war. We've been at war now and with no end in sight for over a dozen years, the longest in our history. War breeds tyranny. War breeds people who want to prosecute and persecute those who reveal that tyranny. So what we have is the government becoming more draconian - clearly understandable. It always does in a period of war. And as it becomes more draconian, more and more whistleblowers coming.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

“Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.”

“You can't fool the American people - politician trying to fool the American people.”

“We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.”

“Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.”

Source : Interview with Mark C. Anderson, www.montereycountyweekly.com. Nov 21, 2007.

“The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.”

“Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net