Work for purpose, be for others.

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

Of course, I tried to surround myself with other people like me whose dream of writing was a constant burden....

I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

Any society that is silencing its women has no future.

The path which we believe in is the path of love; it has all the goodness of God in it-calmness and kindness.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.