The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

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.

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.

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.

Praying is pleasure pursuit.

Any teachings that fail to recognize Jesus Christ as the author of life, is absolutely antichrist.John 1:1-13.

Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.

Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.

Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported.

Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.