If you don't have the ability or encouragement to use yourself in a physical way, you could become just another talking head. And talking heads run things. That's part of the reason why we're in such a sad state as a planet, because it's all about thinking, and thinking has led to a lot of aggrandizement - taking over [resources] and figuring out how you can steal and leaving people and the planet in an impoverished state.

To grow, to become spiritually alive, and vibrant, you really have to struggle. Without struggle, you do not move at all...I would appreciate it if readers who come to my work would try very, very, very hard not to think narrowly as we are taught to think in America.

To know is to exist; to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes.

We have elders who [are] misguided and wallowing around in troughs of money with the wrong sort. They're not really good elders for the youth to emulate. The youth rightly don't like them.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Sexuality is one of the ways that we become enlightened, actually, because it leads us to self-knowledge.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.