If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

It's a critical fallacy of our times ... that a writer should 'grow,' 'change,' or 'develop.' This fallacy causes us to expect from children or radishes: 'grow,' or there's something wrong with you. But writers are not radishes. If you look at what most writers actually do, it resembles a theme with variations more than it does the popular notion of growth.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue.