Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

Writing is one of the ways I participate in transformation.

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I want most folk out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people.