Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

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

We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.