The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.

To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.

I feel the need to reaffirm all of it, the whole unhappy territory and all the things loved and unloveable in it, for it is all part of me.

Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or moaning dove.

Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

When American life is most American it is apt to be most theatrical.