Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

The first revolution is when you change your mind

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Nobody can do everything, but everybody can do something.

America .. the international Jekyll and Hyde ... the land of a thousand disguises, sneaks up on you but rarely surprises

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people's faces, because that's the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

The revolution will be no re-run brothers, The revolution will be live.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

I lied. I do that, you know, when it suits me. I would have thought you'd realized that by now.

It was a weakness, but he could not bear to disappoint women, even if it was ultimately for their own good.

Bedlam: an institution with a history so fearsome it gave its name to a synonym for chaos and pandemonium.

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play 'catch up' is lethal.

We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.

A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.

I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.

I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.