“The truth is that we live in a world that diminishes possibilities.”

“It is not enough to have a light; it must be shared with others! For the darkness to diminish, we must eagerly share the truth!”

“If sexuality is one dimension of our ability to live passionately in the world then in cutting off our sexual feelings we diminish our overall power to feel know and value deeply.”

“The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.”

“The earth we abuse and the living things we killwill, in the end, take their revenge; for inexploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”

“Why else do we read anyway? I think most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: The mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-real world. Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.”