I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.

I am a very radical person - as radical now as I was when I was younger. So my books all have in common my search for understanding of the terrible world we are living in and ways to change it.

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person. What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people’s dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats–and they in turn can listen to ours.

You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.

I do not understand how on earth you can become a writer without seeing the world.