I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped.

I'd like to die with my boots on.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

You just have to do what you know is right.

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.