Time is not a line but a dimension, like the dimensions of space.

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine.

Debt is not just a money thing. It's about owing and being owed. Money is just one thing you can exchange. You can exchange good deeds, you can exchange revenge, you can exchange murders.

Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.

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.

Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.