Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.