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.

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.

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.

I walk wherever my errands take me.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

I held her close for only a short time, but after she was gone, I'd see her smile on the face of a perfect stranger and I knew she would be there with me all the rest of my days.

The fragility of the intellectual is the same as the poet's:It's all about the I and its desperate sense of the we.

A song, a beautiful song sings in my soul and heart.Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansThe Religion Of The Blue Circle

Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

The moment someone says, 'Hey, everyone, listen to the words in this song,' your party is over.

When will it no longer be necessary to attach special weight to the word 'woman' and raise it specially?

Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.

If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you have enough horsepower.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.