Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

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.

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far.

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

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.