No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone.

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.