I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

There is always a time to make right what is wrong.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.

In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.