There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

Sometimes you find that what is most personal is also what connects you most strongly with others.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

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.