The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

All art is a kind of confession.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

The trick is to love somebody.... If you love one person, you see everybody else differently.

My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"