Peter Coyote quotes
Nothing that I care about politically will come to pass without campaign finance reform. Until the politicians are paid for by the people, they will serve the people who paid them. They will serve corporate masters.
Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.
Once you've experienced something with the totality of your being, you can't go back.
One of the things that occurs to me is that we are, now in the '80s, the equivalent of the hipster be-bop'ers, in the '50s, that used to wear crew-cuts and charcoal grey suits and string ties-those guys with totally loose wigs, who were in a benificent masquerade.
Part of my time is dedicated to reading scripts, part to voice-overs, part to travel, part to dub previous films. The week is very different depending whether I'm home in Northern California or whether I'm on location.
People find it safe to assume that we were the Salvation Army. But what they don't understand is: the Free Store was done because some people wanted to do it. The Free Food was done because some people wanted to do it.
People like us were not going to be any more comfortable in a leftist nation-state than we were in a rightist nation-state.
Reaganism is just a kind of atavism, just a throwback. I think we pushed too hard and too fast on too many fronts, and we scared a lot of people. The culture threw the country to the conservatives for good housekeeping, because they knew the answers were not available and they wanted to buy time.
The '60s was a wonderful moral re-awakening for America. And if you look at the number of ideas and movements that were either germinated or came into a fullness there, it's quite extraordinary.
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
The city was taking an authoritarian police view of the whole matter. We started feeding them and sheltering them and setting up medical clinics, just because it needed to be done.
The competition to... continually transcend limits when you discover them was an unending strain on the imagination-fueled by drugs. A lot of speed, a lot of acid, a lot of smack.
The editor of this literary magazine, Zyzzyva, asked me to write something a number of years ago, so I wrote an essay about a week's session in a Zen monastery. That was about 1989, and I've been writing it ever since.
The first time I was offered Free Food, I so completely missed it. The condition we described was: eternity is now, if you have a fantasy, take responsibility for it and actualize it, build or imply a society around it. And if it's nice, people will join you.
The guy who accused me of being a bad revolutionary clawed his eyes out on an acid trip and is in an asylum today.
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