I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there.

Thank God I got the rejects. These animals are very, very affectionate.

The children of America are not rebelling for no reason. They are not hippies for no reason at all. We don’t have what we have on Sunset Blvd. for no reason. They are rebelling against something. There are so many things burning the people of this country, particularly mothers. They feel they are going to raise sons—and I know what it's like, and you have children of your own, Mrs. Johnson—we raise children and send them to war.

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.