I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a movie.

They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.

I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy.

Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice.

We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revolution in the Western Hemisphere, free from American intervention.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Michael Giles the first drummer of King Crimson, never agreed to the name King Crimson. But then, if you'd knew Michael, you would know he didn't agree to the album cover either. So maybe Michael didn't agree to the point of definition with many things.

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.

I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world.

I am happy that the urgency to reform our broken criminal justice system has found allies all across the political spectrum.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

New York as an industry is the best city for real estate. You're in a very transparent market. If you need to liquidate, you make three phone calls and you could sell something, even in the worst market. It is also less forgiving; if you make a mistake you can lose money.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed but a thing created is loved before it exists.

The fine line that you do when you do political comedy is, as long as you have that laugh, you're fine.

I couldn't pedal a bike as a child, so I had a donkey instead. I loved the power and freedom it had.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.

We're all born bald, baby.

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

My life is fulfilled.

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.