Money is a way of creating scarcity.

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.

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.

If something happens that causes you Pain, remind yourself that you can’t get the Rainbow without a little Rain.

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

To say someone is a producer... it's kind of a slippery term.

I'm trying to think about stuff like that: How can a show not be just a whining guy with a guitar.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.