Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

If we celebrate life with all its contradictions, embrace, experience, and ultimately live with it, a chance exists for a spiritual life filled not only with pain and untidiness, but also with joy, community, and creativity.

If you only had a limited time to life (which is of course the case), how would you spend your time?

Those in power have made it so we have to pay simply to exist on the planet. We have to pay for a place to sleep, and we have to pay for food. If we don't, people with guns come and force us to pay. That's violent.

Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.

All writers are propagandists.