Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

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