I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

Always go hard and fast enough so that when you hit the ditch you can pull out the other side.

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

Take this job and shove it, I ain't working here no more.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

Put your shoulder to the wheel.

I cannot exist without the oxygen of laughter.

Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.

I try to shrug it off as a minor annoyance that whenever I do something successful, every capitalist out there wants a piece of the action.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.

I think some parents fall into a trap, teaching their kids that everything is always perfect and everyone is always a winner.