I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.

Unions have been the only powerful and effective voice working people have ever had in the history of this country.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.