Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.

When I discover who I am, I'll be free.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain.

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.

In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live.

Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.