"Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence."

"You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy."

"The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one."

"Action is the antidote to despair."

"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"

"It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page."

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."

"That's all nonviolence is - organized love."

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"

"Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry."

"Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers."