I don't think I had even begun to have an idea where I was going, but wherever it was, that was where I wanted to go.

The hierarchy of power is not the same as the hierarchy of value. A good human is higher than the animals on both scales; an evil human is high on the scale of power, but at the very bottom of the scale of values.

Violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in "justice" or in affirmation of "rights" or in defense of "peace" do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

We cannot hope to be secure when our government has declared, by its readiness to act alone, its willingness to be everybody's enemy.

Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.

How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.

It's kind of alarming for me to realize that, when I'm writing stories about times I remember, it's already historical fiction.