Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

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.

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.

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.

People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.

Onward boldly, pursue your passion.

The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers.

That boy never seemed to smile and he wore long sleeves year-round, and I was not so different from him—we were both unable to get near the real life in life.

It is difficult to understand the journey of a hero, ” the whisperer said.

I've been thinking about songwriting more in terms of playing it live, and how it will sound as a band.

Sometimes we need to get over ourselves and actually realize that sometimes, God has a better plan. God's ways are higher than ours.

I'll attend all my team's games

We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.