And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

They motivate us to play, be affectionate, seek adventure and be loyal.

A silent majority and government by the people is incompatible.

I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.

Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.

I am the Vietcong. We are everywhere! We are all Vietcong.

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.

Then you have [Donald] Trump. So it could be the tightest, most hazardous race in political history and we can't afford to allow Trump to slither through. So that's where I'm at.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

I learned to play the instruments of war, " he said, "and paint in blood.

And the heart sounds like a sour conch, calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic, scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:the sea reports sonorouslyon its languid shadows, its green poppies.

Love is the suspension of reality in favor of the sublime.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.

Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day.

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all.

The power within you which enables you to form a thought-picture is the starting point of all there is.

I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.