Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

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 soul is only satisfy with your soul-spirit, soul mate.

nature can offer you the biggest gifts only if you are ready to accept.

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know.

I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

Just because someone isn't working at an office doesn't mean they're not working hard at something.

I am drawn to characters that go on journeys, characters that are real people, that have life.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.

The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.