Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

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.

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair

As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?

Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

We survive our love because we go on loving.