Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.