"When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did."

"It's a dismally lonely business, writing."

"Revolution begins with the self, in the self."

"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."

"The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible."

"I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it."

"I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves."

"The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality."