Everything Was Absolutely Ideal On

I Was Arrested 1965. I Had Come Back From The Merchant Marines, Got Into Conversations About The War. I Had Never Heard Of Vietnam Until I Was In The Merchant Marines In Constitution Square In Athens, And I Picked Up The New York Herald Or The International Herald Tribune And There Was My First Introduction Of The Word Vietnam.

One Of The Things That's Complicated About Writing Anything Is That It's An Act Of Narcissism, And Then Of Course Once It Sails Out Into The World, You Have To Let Go Of It.

You Need To Find A Way To Live Your Life, That It Doesn't Make A Mockery Of Your Values.

Frederick Douglass Ran A Primary Campaign Against [abraham Lincoln] The Second Time Around, In 1864. They Hated Him. Why'd They Hate Him? Because He Said Things Like "i Believe In White Supremacy."

When I Was Young, Communism, Which Had A Certain Allure To Me, Was Clearly A Failed Experiment In The Soviet Union And In China. And Yet, Anti-communism Was As Bad.