The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

No matter what the issues are, it has to be handled at the grassroots. When you take part in something, even though that movement may lose, the juices start flowing and you feel you count. You count. Well, that's pretty important.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got something to pass on. There'll be nobody like you ever again. Make the most of every molecule you've got as long as you've got a second to go.