Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.

Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

To be just without being mad (and the madder you get the madder you get), to be peaceful without being stupid, to be interested without being compulsive, to be happy without being hysterical... smoke grass.