You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.

Teachers inspire the smallest hearts to grow big enough to change the world.

Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam War, the phrase body count entered our vocabulary. It is an ambiguous phrase, inorganic, even faintly sporty. It distanced us from the painful reality of corpses, of dead, mutilated people.

In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.