For, like almost everyone else in our country, I started out with my share of optimism. I believed in hard work and progress and action, but now, after first being 'for' society and then 'against' it, I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities. What a phrase - still it's a good phrase and a good view of life, and a man shouldn't accept any other; that much I've learned underground. Until some gang succeeds in putting the world in a strait jacket, its definition is possibility.

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

I was pulled this way and that for longer than I can remember. And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own. I have also been called one thing and then another while no one really wished to hear what I called myself. So after years of trying to adopt the opinions of others I finally rebelled. I am an invisible man.

And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.

We look too much to museums. The sun coming up in the morning is enough.

Power, for the writer....lies in his ability to reveal if only a little bit more about the complexity of humanity.

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.