As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

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.

You want to know what love is? Its the thing that ruins you.

The history of the world has been one not of conquest, as supposed; it has been one of ennui.

The only difference between a published and unpublished writer is a tolerance for imperfection.

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

When in doubt, start from the top. -Jason Grace

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.