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

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.

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.

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.

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

We can only be our best by giving, and so we always need to be in the process of giving or preparing to give.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

The future of commerce is going to be all electronic. The gold standard was a fine idea, but electronic changes of funds and credits will be the future.

I never had a long-term plan.

The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progress.