I've always been a writer.

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

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 you’re going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

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.

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

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

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, being abused as a intern.

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

I think the ’60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

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 extension of your vanity, you’ve gone too far.