"Like a lot of writers, I just got sick to death of conventional fiction. I absolutely couldn't stand the illusion of reality and plot. I just couldn't stomach it."

“Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.”

“To marry was to say you believed in the future and in the past, too-that history and tradition and hope could stay knit together to hold you up.”

“With the strong bipartisan rejection of the Dorgan amendment today, the Senate cast a vote in favor of the U.S. working to knock down unfair trade barriers that hurt American business and farmers”

“Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.”

“Civil disobedience is an act of love.”

Source : "Civil disobedience is an act of love | An interview with Tim DeChristopher". Interview with Leslee Goodman, moonmagazine.org. December 1, 2014.

“Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.”

Source : Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

“Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.”

“Remember, once more how our world should be. And please, don't forget, please, please don't forget.”