I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.