Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

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.

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

What a privilege it is to live now, at just this moment, and to be able to go anywhere....

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

The fear of offending can be stronger than the fear of pain

One thing that you consistently see everywhere is that the poor and the under-represented are always the ones who are going to suffer the most and get the short end of the stick.

Money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art.

[I find it] impossible [to imagine] that a nation which is grounded in Judaeo-Christian principles would somehow select someone [for President] who would repudiate those principles.

A closed mouth doesn't get fed.

Time is our most finite commodity, therefore our most valuable, and I respect other peoples' time.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.