I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

I'm concerned about the overuse of spectacular places. And there's no real wilderness left and so there's a heartbreak there. You can go anywhere and be rescued through your cell phone and have some helicopter drop down.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

You really felt a radical shift in the advance of a poetics that had really been engendered by [Walt] Whitman. This was very exciting. I wanted to work in this environment.

Any technology is just a skillful means and it's how you use it.

I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.