My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

So the best thing is to really work on yourself and opening your own heart and just letting all that stuff [worrying] go. And it is possible. It's sometimes takes a lot of time; it's not easy. And a lot of sitting with yourself and trying to work with your own heart.

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.