We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

TV has created a kind of false collectivity.

You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

"Global culture" is of course not a culture: it's the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.