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.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

The only proper mask to wear in life is your own damn face.

Writing is a legitimate way, an important way, to participate in the empowerment of the community that names me.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

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

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.