As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

Thoughts are roots

Controlling unwanted thoughts is not the problem. Believing, thrusting, and taking direction from them is.

In family life love is the oil that eases friction the cement that binds closer together and the music that brings harmony.

A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.

When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.

A dollar saved is a quarter earned.

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

Men are taught to apologise for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

A plot is two dogs and one bone.

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.