the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.

Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.

Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.

The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England.

I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.