“Without freedom of speech, I might be in the swamp.”

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

“Don't Ask Me Nothing About Nothing, I Just Might Tell You the Truth ”

“And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71”

“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”

“I count the years and I shed no tears; I'm blinded to what might have been. Nature's voice makes my heart rejoice; play me the wild song of the wind.”

“It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.”