If you imagine that everything is an exchange, then we're supposed to just transact and walk away. If we haven't walked away and we still have a relationship, it's because there's a debt.

I think if the general exodus that seems to be going on occurs it's going to be a disaster,.

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.

There seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.

Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Neoliberalism isn't an economic program - it's a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives.

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

Revolutionary constituencies always involve a tacit alliance between the least alienated and the most oppressed.

Few of us ever touch eternity, and if we do, it is not in the ways we expect.

But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars.

Bombing, particularly from the perspective of the receiving end, is not 'communication.' Bombs result in death and destruction.

If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.

I really wanted my creams to feel luxurious and have a beautiful finish, and it's harder to do that with natural ingredients.

If you do nursing or that type of work long enough, you become a healer in your own thoughts. You're cycling love, so you can stay a little more sane in the midst of it.

The greatest people that ever lived were also the greatest failures. They just didn’t let those failures affect them like they do most.

It was nice that you guys have such a good sense of humor, because some people don't have the ability to laugh at something.

I live for those rare and delicious moments when the words on the page take off and I am the bystander, watching as the tale shows me what will happen next.

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia