After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

I believe that contentment or any sustained period of joy that doesn't inspire thought that leads to action almost immediately is useless.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

My feelings for you shame me into silence.

I live my life by the numbers. Not only am I an American, I am an Americanist.