There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

A bellyful is a bellyful.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

I always have a picture in my head of what I want. I will literally do anything to make it happen. I will kill myself; I will run myself into the ground to make it happen how I want it to happen.