It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts.

One stands, in fact, in awe of the Constitution of the United States, though it is an idea and not quite a reality.

School buildings should be opened and used twenty four hours a day.

You do what you can with what you have. You have to work the edges whatever they are. The main thing is keeping your integrity.