She was a nice person, she really was, until someone ignorant decided to force that ignorance in her face, and then she just couldn't hold back.

You can't draw water from an empty well.

One mustn't dream of one's future

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

Paul [ Burwell] and I had also got interested in making books. We'd been working with Bob Cobbing, the sound poet, since the beginning of the 70s, and Bob had this press called Writers Forum.

Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory.

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.