I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own life in my writing for instance. It has always been clear to me that the stories of each other's lives are our best textbooks. Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences. So, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change.

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.

It's a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that's not the same as being responsible for something.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.