Oh, never and forever aren't for mortals, love. But we won't be parted till I know it's right that we part.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Growing up during World War II certainly affected my whole view of life, but I hardly know how, it goes so deep. What's hard to explain now is that, though we were never invaded, and bombed only once and ineffectively on the coast of Oregon, everybody in the country was in that war. Everything we did was influenced by it - eating, traveling, dressing, thinking - everything in daily life.

A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They'd rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.

It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.