In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.

We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.