“The revolution is just a T-shirt away.- Waiting for the Great Leap Forward”

“Because the space race is overAnd I can't help but feel that we've all grown up too soon.- The Space Race Is Over”

“Freedom is merely privilege extendedUnless enjoyed by one and all.- The Internationale”

“A virtue never tested is no virtue at all.- Must I Paint You a Picture”

“How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team?- Greetings to the New Brunette”

“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”

“It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them.”