America is run by corporations, it is run by banks and Wall Street. That's why we can't get guns under control. It's because all these lobbyists don't want gun control, they don't want us to have strong environmental safety guards. Young people can become aware of that and they are the most powerful lobby. With a click of a text, you can have millions of people voting for one person.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

People say hello to me. I mean, sometimes the sanitation truck goes by and says, hey Patti.

Angel looks down at him and says, “Oh, pretty boy, Can't you show me nothing but surrender?

Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an energetic, desperate haven for scores of gifted hustling children from every rung of the ladder. Guitar bums and stoned-out beauties in Victorian dresses. Junkie poets, playwrights, broke-down filmmakers, and French actors. Everybody passing through here is somebody, if not in the outside world.

I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.