I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluenc….

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers..

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station..

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed..

You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it..

Phil Cousineau has created a fine companion book to accompany the important film he and Gary Rhine have made in defense of the religious traditions o….

I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an ….

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion..

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage..

It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It sa….

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded ….

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that..

I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something..

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship..

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector..

Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page head….

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without o….

I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, bei….

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not y….

Money is a way of creating scarcity..