The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

As long as a man stays alive he can't tell what chances will pop up next. But a dead man signs no checks.

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

Politics isn't in my nature.

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.

The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

Nationality isn't soul.