The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace or peace an interlude...
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
There is no reason to repeat bad history.
There were various turning points, but the main one at the beginning was...
Look into the heavens and say, “It’s my turn to make history.