No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.

It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.

We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.

It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money.

I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.

These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American.

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Southern California where the American Dream came too true.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.

In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.

I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.

There is a temptation in politics to look for simplistic slogans and to play the game in a way that looks like you're a savvy politician.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

We are so reliant on power and technology for everything.

The coolest things in life are things that you have not done before. That's the key to life: new things always.

In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.

I don't like concrete jungles.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.

Men and machines are good at different things. People form plans and make decisions in complicated situations. We are less good at making sense of enormous amounts of data. Computers are exactly the opposite: they excel at efficient data processing but struggle to make basic judgments that would be simple for any human.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

Don't stop after you reach your goals; aim to surpass them!

I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.

I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

Let us blame none let us blame our own Karma.

I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, nothing in the world can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.

I think that it is important to be gregarious, and that friendships are not just a leisure pursuit, that they are an integral part of what it is to be human, and one does better work if one has a circle of friends that is active.

My family provided me with the proper information and inspiration for me to overcome the challenge of blindness.

I don't display emotions. I have every feeling that everyone else has, but I've developed ways to suppress them. Anger is one of my most comfortable feelings.

At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.