I tend to agree that celibacy for a time is worth considering, for sex is dirty if all it means is winning a man, conquering a woman, beating someone out of something, abusing each other's dignity in order to prove that I am a man, I am a woman.

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

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

The story is a piece of work. The novel is a way of life.

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