Susan Sontag: What she really wanted, throughout her career, was to grow up to be a Frenchman.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.