To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

It’s up to us to choose contentment and thankfulness now—and to stop imagining that we have to have everything perfect before we’ll be happy.

There is hope for the hopeless.

The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

The health of a community is an almost unfailing index of its morals.

After I got kicked out of CalArts, I moved to Lawrence Kansas where my sister lived. I began working on A William S. Burroughs documentary. I had no idea it would turn into such a big film.

We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America!