“It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.”

“It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.”

“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”

“I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.”

“My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.”

“Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.”

“Ultimate vulnerability. That’s manly.”