There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.

My parents created their own war.

It's been hard. My mother is proud of me, but her reaction swings wildly from day to day. I don't really take her point of view. I'm hard on her. And that's hard to read.

Kids are trusting and wise and I cannot think of a less useful combination to be born with. The wisdom lets children know who they are. And then the trust lets everyone else take that knowledge away.

A memoir, at its heart, is written in order to figure out who you are.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That's what hurts the most.

Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Act! Do something now. Some chances never come again. Seize the moment. Seize the day! Live to the fullest. Live to YOUR fullest potential.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

When the sciences are supreme, average people lose their feeling of causality.