My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'.

When it comes to the news, the corporate view is `objective,' all else is propaganda.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.

I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.

For the next century, we've got to put together what we so carelessly tore apart with so little concern for those who were gonna follow us. ... You've got to sound off.