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"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that."
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"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."

"Hatred is the air I breathe. It permeates every cell in my body."

"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."
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"I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something."

"I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern."

"I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological."

"Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector."

"It came home to me indelibly that I was never going to change anything in America by walking around carrying a sign. It was a great revelation. It saved me a lot of anxiety and a lot of wasted energy."

"Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed."

"Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment."

"You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it."
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