"How sick one gets of being 'good,' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."

"The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?"

"I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am."

"Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity."

"How a minority, Reaching a majority, Seizing authority, Hates a minority!"

"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."

"Power to the peaceful!"

"When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist."