Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

You are saying, are you not, I said to Manuelito, that stories have more room in them than ideas? [...] He laughed. That is correct, Señor. It is as if ideas are made of blocks. Rigid and hard. And stories are made of a gauze that is elastic. You can almost see through it, so what is beyond is tantalizing. You can't quite make it out; and because the imagination is always moving forward, you yourself are constantly stretching. Stories are the way spirit is exercised.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.