By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

You know and we know, as practical men that the question of justice arises only between parties equal in strength and that the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer what they must.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

It feels like I'm babysitting in the Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for the parents to show up because we are out of chips and diet cokes.

The blues to me is like being very sad, very sick, going to church, being very happy ... it's sort of a mixed up thing. You just have to feel it.

Such a human waste, your eyes without a face.

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

Right now I would give all the yogurt raisins in all the world for a heart made of ice.