A burnt finger remember the fire.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Abortion is an act of self-defense.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I have a lot of faith in us. I have a lot of faith in humanity. It's based, though, on my own life; I've come too far to be a pessimist.

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

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.