“Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small stove, squeezing past each other on the narrow stairs, sh...”

“An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation...”

“...all around George, approaching him, crossing his path from every direction, is the male and female raw material which is fed daily into this factory, along the conveyor-belts of the freeways, to...”

“Whats so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isnt any difference between people well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what d...”

“I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily be the ones who best understand you....”

“No, Geounderneath all that, Nan really loves me. Its just she wants me to see things her way. You know, shes two years older; that meant a lot when we were children. Ive always thought of her as be...”

“Yes, Im talking about a non-violent revolution of consciousness. A consciousness that is able to understand how were all inextricably connected to each other on this Earth,and to the Earth itself.A...”

“Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.”

“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”