My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction, ' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

But sometimes it's the sunshine that frightens us more than the big black shadows.

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

If you truly want to make an impact on the world, you can and you will.

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

Whenever Canada moves to protect its own industries and people, it is subjected to violent attacks in the U.S. Congress and to threats of economic retaliation.

The most effective and most accessible way to acquire the maximum of constructive power is to love truly and wisely.

Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul.

A number of things in Dhalgren are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.