To win, we will need to keep building the movement, networking with one another, planning, strategizing, and moving forward. Our children's futures, and those of their unborn children, are at stake.

Average people and the average community can change the world. You can do it just based on common sense, determination, persistence and patience.

People need to stand up hold hands, talk about alternatives. Alternatives, alternatives, alternatives. And people united will never, ever be defeated.

The dioxin story is the story of how science has failed to provide us with answers, how corporations control policymaking and decisions in our society, and how government is silenced.

we talk of plans that are going to happen.we talk of the future, as if we know we will last.there is a sort of comfort in that.

Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

I was a kid who sometimes got in trouble because I couldn't keep my mouth shut, which turned out to be an advantage when I became an opinion columnist.

I believe if you work hard and you dream big enough, you can accomplish anything in this world.

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.