Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

The only thing you should have to do is find work you love to do. And I can't imagine living without having loved a person. A man, in my case. It could be a woman, but whatever. I think, what I always tell kids when they get out of class and ask, 'What should I do now?' I always say, 'Keep a low overhead. You're not going to make a lot of money.' And the next thing I say: 'Don't live with a person who doesn't respect your work.' That's the most important thing—that's more important than the money thing. I think those two things are very valuable pieces of information.

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

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.

To be modest means that you have something to be modest about.