As We Say In The Sewer, Time

I'd Say That, In Addition To Actually Taking My Brother And Sister And I Camping And Hiking And River Rafting All Our Lives And Introducing Us To The Power Of Natural Landscapes, His [my Father's] Biggest Impact On My Thinking Has Been To Always Argue That The "spiritual Case For Nature" Was Not Going To Outweigh The Needs Of 7 Billion People And To Insist That Law, Science And Economics Were The Critical Frameworks Through Which We Had To Defend The Value Of Nature.

When I Think Of My Background, If I Was Privileged On Any Level, It Was In Terms Of The Kind Of Exposure To Experience And Bohe-mian Cultural Influence That My Parents And My Uncles And My Grandfather Gave Me. On Both Sides I Come From An Extremely Eccentric, Artsy, Intellectually Intense, Activist Family.

I Almost Forgot What It's Like To Be Proud Of My Government.

We Must Realize That Nature Is Absolutely Essential For Our Survival, And We Must Act On That Premise Now.

Everyone Thinks That Fight Club Is A Very Important And Successful Film, But It Was A Massive Box-office Failure. Massive. It Was A Big Flop By Any Commercial-release Standard. And It's Been A Huge Hit On Dvd. Everything That Movie Has Become Has Been On Dvd. So You Can't Stake Your Sense Of Creative Success On This Whole Box-office-performance Matrix, Because If You Do, You're Going To Be Disappointed Most Of The Time.