Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed. . . .

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

Medication without explanation is obscene.

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.

Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth.