No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

I love school. I was a great student.

You see, some non-Catholic friends of mine have questioned the depth of my faith because of the fact that I have a good education.

For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

Victor Papenack, who was teaching design, had his students making radios for a penny each that could be shipped to Third World people.