Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.

Writing a book is a herculean task, but the toughest thing is to get convinced with your work, and finally give it a green signal.

Music is the language of the universe

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.

I take it very seriously when I take the pulpit. That I'm representing God.

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

I think everyone who has an interest in Reformed theology, or just in Christian theology more generally, should read John Calvin Institutes.

You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

To prevent inquiry is amongst the worst of evils.