The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

When I was a boy I was my father.

Communism wasn't a word that I thought of when I went to Cuba. The original Fidelistas were not Communists. They were graduate students at the university and law students. After the Fidelistas took over, they went to Washington and tried to get support from the U.S. government, which turned them down. They were in a desperate political and economic situation, so they took the offer from the Soviet Union. Communism was a matter of necessity.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.