Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.

Credibility is a basic survival tool.

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.