"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"

"The wilderness begins at the edge of my body, at the edge of my consciousness, and extends to the edge of the univers…"

"I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the sto…"

"This is not a man who sits down to "write a poem"; rather, some burden of understanding and feeling, some need to kno…"

"the farmer takes Jill down the well & all the king's horses & all the king's men can't put that baby together again c…"

"death is where jimi hendrix is, where our revolution ended up."

"There has always been something wrong wif the tesses. The tesses paint a picture of me wif no brain. The tesses paint…"

""I'm tired," I says. She says, "I know you are, but you can't stop now Precious, you gotta push." And I do."