When you have a peace movement that has an actual war, it's different from one that has wars that our country is not totally involved in. During the war in Vietnam, and to a lesser degree the wars in Central America where our country was directly involved, it was easier to organize.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

Just when I most needed important conversation, a sniff of the man-wide world, that is, at least one brainy companion who could translate my friendly language into his tongue of undying carnal love, I was forced to lounge in our neighborhood park, surrounded by children.

A joke is necessary at this time.

If you want to do things, do things.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part of my life as the literature.