"Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches."

“A map, it is said, organizes wonder.”

“I listen to old songs and remember exactly where I was living and where I recorded it and how I wrote it, the girl I was dating at the time or whatever.”

Source : Source: maroonweekly.com

“Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.”

Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

“Bill Clinton is not my commander-in-chief.”

“When everyone is part of the people's congress, what need is there for an opposition? Opposition to what? You oppose a government! If there is no government, and the people govern themselves on their own, what are they going to oppose? Something that isn't there?”

“True manifesting is allowing the universe to catch up with your dreams.”

“The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.

“I started in theatre. I was at Cleveland and I went to London for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth.”