"I need one of those baby-monitors for my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I'm really thinking about."

"Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves."

"But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it."

"Voluntary assimilation, known as Indianization in the Americas, is one response that has occurred at other places and in other times when two cultures collided. An unusual manifestation of it is when …"

"To look forward, to want life, means we have to be willing to look backwards and become more conscious of all those who have hurt us, all that is broken in us and that has brought us inner deaths, hur…"