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.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

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.

The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

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

When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.