A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Your calling is in what you can do with human interference

Bones just stared. "You're not a woman, " he said finally. "You're the Grim Reaper with red hair!

Beware the wounded lioness, for she is a natural hunter.

Mostly the beauty has the dangerous, suspicious, untrusting, and even vanity waves in it, and that indeed, prevail too.

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Yea, slimy things did crawl with legsUpon the slimy sea.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.