We still go where we want, even if we got to crawl for the right.' - Tom Joad (Jr.)

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed.

It was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

Don't you love Jesus?' Well, I thought an' I thought an' finally I says, 'No, I don't know nobody name' Jesus. I know a bunch of stories, but I only love people.

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

The last clear definite function of men—muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need—this is man.

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother.

The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.

Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.

People can always say I don't look impressive enough, but they can't argue over how strong I am once I punch them in the face.

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

Where there is no relationship with God there is no future

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Hardy, I do believe they have done it at last... my backbone is shot through.

Yesterday's shining heroes of Brexit have become the sorrowful heroes of today.

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

Living in somebody else's pain for an actor man, it's actually nice when you get to feel that kind of emotion. That's what I like.

Quentin Crisp (to handsome young man on the street): "What's the matter, sexy? Don't you like dehydrated fruit?

Selling records is fantastic. But if you're not loving what you do, and if everybody is throwing knives at you, it can get old very fast.