I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.