Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

My main interests right now are to publish, to write, to explicate various views which I hope have an impact on thinking people.

I was raised as a red diaper baby.

I'm less influenced by any of [Karl] Marx's ideas today than I've ever been in my life, and most significantly Marx's theory of historical materialism, which I think is virtually a debris of despotism.

I am not a communist first and an individualist second. I am an individualist first, and I don't mean this in the shallow, purely egotistical sense of self-interest and everyone else be damned. I mean this in the true sense of enlightenment, recovery of personality, and the full development of personality.

Until society can be reclaimed by an undivided humanity that will use its collective wisdom, cultural achievements, technological innovations, scientific knowledge, and innate creativity for its own benefit and for that of the natural world, all ecological problems will have their roots in social problems.

I will never surrender the rights of the individual - the complete rights of the individual - to any "ism" whatever.