"Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together"

“I envision the future sunny and with love, harmony and oneness. I think Hollywood is changing.”

“I suspect that the word (art) was invented by second-rate intelligences to describe the incomprehensible activities of their betters.”

Source : "Showboat World" by Jack Vance, DAW Books, (p. 111), 1981.

“I think it's very dangerous for a free society to have all the information distilled and packaged by our government and given to us. Do we know to this day who we killed in Iraq? I don't think so. If bringing war into the living room means that we as a people will say we don't want to do it that way anymore we want to figure out other ways to solve these conflicts, then I would say that photography and television have done us a great service.”

“Patriarchal life, you’re out of date/Patriarchal life, get out of the way!”

“I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.”

Source : "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling". Book by David E. Nye, p. 227, 2000.

“Im a truly loved kid, and hopefully it will make me a happier adult.”

“Climate change will impact most heavily on the disadvantaged. If we don't address these impacts, as well as growing income inequalities, we are marching blindly toward major breakdowns in security, governance, and public welfare.”

“An anarchist society, far from being a remote ideal, has become a precondition for the practice of ecological principles.”

Source : Janet Biehl, Murray Bookchin (1999). “The Murray Bookchin Reader”, p.20, Black Rose Books Ltd.