I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.