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"Freedom. It's not something you go out and die for."
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"When you write by hand, you don't have the excessive freedom of a computer. When I write down something, I have to be serious about it. I have to ask myself, "Is this necessary at this point in the book?"

"The true measure of a nation's freedom is its ability to protect the liberties of its citizens."

"You can be your own boss."

"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."

"Freedom is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that "the people" do no want freedom."

"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it."
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"At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family."

"Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience."

"I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains."

"All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art."

"The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act."

"I believe that I understand gangs better than others. Because they're formed out of necessity. They're formed by people to keep from being suppressed."

"But my patriotism goes for something beyond what we have. We don't have something that I want to die for - anymore."

"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting."

"Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity."
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