Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.

Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

The less routine the more life.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

I think it's quite unlikely that I'll be the leader of the Green party going into a future election if it's on anything like a four-year timing.

Just by existing as men, we are automatically guilty of everything in some people's minds. And, on top of that, we've created a situation in the media where men are only allowed to talk about politics and sport.

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.