We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

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

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

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.

... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.

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

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do.