Write a lot and hit the streets. A writer who doesn't keep up with what's out there ain't gonna be out there.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

One monkey don't stop no show. Not one, not six. The struggle continues.

There are times ... when any visitor - in person, by phone, by mail - is an intruder, a burglar, a space hogger, an oxygen taker, a chaos maker, a conflict inducer, a mood chaser, and a total drag.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality.