"Freedom is a heavy load, a beautiful and terrible thing."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings."

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have any feelings, and then you're dead."

"The word for world is forest."

"I hate to be told by some guy in a suit that I shouldn't be writing about this or that because it's not 'marketable.'"