This earth is my sister; I love her daily grace, her silent daring, and how loved I am. How we admire this strength in each other, all that we have lost, all that we have suffered, all that we know: We are stunned by this beauty, and I do not forget: what she is to me, what I am to her.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

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

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

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

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.

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