"The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend."
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"Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before."
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"With Instagram, you're captioning a moment. Twitter is the caption without the image. Even if it's there, the words come first."
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"I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around."
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"I always aimed at being a legend."
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"I've had a lifelong waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop feeling when something good happens."
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"I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it."
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"I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream."
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"The first time I voted, I voted for Eugene McCarthy and I knew he wouldn't win, but it felt so great to vote for him, to vote for the right guy - the one who wanted peace."
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"Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man."