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.

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

We write about what we don't know about what we know.

What we owe men is some freedom from their part in a murderous game in which they kick each other to death with one foot, bracing themselves on our various comfortable places with the other.

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

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.