That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

I am the history of the rejection of who I am

The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.

suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives