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

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

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

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

As an older person, I do feel an obligation to tell the story about what was really happening in the fifties, sixties, and seventies, as I saw it.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.