I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

All contests are unfair

The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.

Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the 70s.

God means movement, and not explanation.

And I've shot in Prince Edward Island winters, I mean, I've shot in some intense, intense temperatures.

Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.

Fear was the knowledge of pain, the awareness that you could be hurt, that you could die.

Love seeks not to possess, but to be possessed.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.