We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you might die of the truth.

Since graveyards are often built over older burial grounds, I assume Dolores Park was probably an Indian, (an Ohlone) graveyard before that. I think the fact that it has so many layers underneath the contemporary one intrigues me.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

Oh, Georgia booze is mighty fine booze, The best yuh ever poured yuh, But it eats the soles right offen yore shoes, For Hell's broke loose in Georgia.

Defeat is a fact and victory can be a fact. If the idea is good, it will survive defeat, it may even survive the victory.