There's nothing compared to the history of writing about the city of New York that you get, say, in Charles Reznikoff.

Bury my heart at Wounded Knee.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Dreaming men are haunted men.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost, Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways...

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Broad-streeted Richmond . . . The trees in the streets are old trees used to living with people, Family trees that remember your grandfather's name.

I have fallen in love with American names, the sharp, gaunt names that never get fat.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know.

Verily, the best of husbands hath many raw edges, and many unnecessary pleats in his temper, and many wrinkles in his disposition, which must be removed.

We have to show the world that not all of us are like him. Otherwise, this will always be Hitler's Germany.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

Peace will come when people have food.