To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

There has always been a part of me that saw wilderness and risk-taking as the path to freedom.

The lover heals the world not by a vague and abstract love for everybody and everything, but by becoming passionate and vowing fidelity to concrete relationships, persons, institutions, and places.

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

Our society has been eaten up by the economic view of things, which routinely forces us to work at jobs that don't mean anything.

Paranoia reduces anxiety and guilt by transferring to the other all the characteristics one does not want to recognize in oneself. It is maintained by selective perception and recall. We only see and acknowledge those negative aspects of the enemy that support the stereotype we have already created.