As a way of getting in touch with my originsevery night I set the alarm clockfor the time I was born so that waking upbecomes a historical reenactment...

That's what I fear: being subtracted from myself. Negation. Forced against my will to become a beast.

we have forgotten what night tastes like, salted by full moon silver rupturingthe dark. we have forgotten how the skin sings when the lunar fervor unfurls across its follicles.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

When you have 8,000 veterans a year committing suicide, then you have a serious problem.

When I was 15, all the boys at school had off-road motorbikes. I wasn't allowed to have one, so I just went out and bought one. My parents took the keys.

I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there.

Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.