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

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.

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

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

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.

Write something even if it's just a suicide note.

I really missed going to college. I missed not having that education and that experience.

With randomness it is very unlikely to be embarrassed, but even if you get embarrassed, you can't replicate it.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

Under Reagan came the idea of putting your pension plan in the stock market, which wasn't a guaranteed pension.

I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.

The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

You know that he who would be the greatest among you must become the servant of all.