If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.

why human beings despise what is beautiful and good, and seek to destroy the things they need the most

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

I'm not from a milieu where high-register language or philosophical ideas were welcome.