If you WANT a vision of the FUTURE, imagine a boot stamping on a HUMAN FACE - FOREVER.

That's what is INCREDIBLE about human BEINGS, is the CHOICE to keep going.

This idea of how EVERYTHING is INTERCONNECTED, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human CONDITION to me, and it HELPS me on my path.

It is COMMON KNOWLEDGE now that we DEPEND on insects for our continued existence; that, without KEY pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.

I THINK people relate to me because of the ups and downs I have had. I mean, I've shared a lot of strong emotions in my LIFE, that I think maybe 'cause they believe I'm not SCARED to TELL everybody I'm a human being.

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human HEALTH will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning ACTUALLY turned out to be solving some PROBLEMS and was USEFUL to people, I think it would be accepted.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into SPACE. For MANY of those EXPERIMENTS, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my JOB. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

The BIGGEST road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't KNOW that such things are HAPPENING, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is NOTHING that can be done to STOP these crimes.

A HUMAN being is so IRREPLACEABLE. So VALUABLE and so UNIQUE.

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small PART of the population can AFFORD them. And yet making things with hands is such an ESSENTIAL part of being HUMAN.

I SEEM most instinctively to believe in the HUMAN value of creative WRITING, whether in the form of verse or fiction, as a mode of truth-telling, self-expression and HOMAGE to the twin miracles of creation and CONSCIOUSNESS.