War is a dead end, literally. And, what is more, we simply can't afford it. Not morally, and not financially. How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

You're not here just to be a clone. You're not here to be a copy. We have enough of those. You don't have to apply. You don't even have to go there to be absolutely yourself - real, here, now, on this planet.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.