I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other.

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.

...and that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?

perturbed to put trust on people nowadays, people changes partner as per necessity. :(

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

The righteous one has no sense of humor.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

You glance at an e-mail. You give more attention to a real letter.

I expect if you're a professional public speaker, you probably wouldn't want to go onstage and sing and play drums.