That's all nonviolence is - organized love.

Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.

All of us are survivors, but how many of us transcend survival?

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.