That's what I'm trying to get over: the idea that anarchism offers a description of equitable relations that go way back rather than a hypothesis of what the future should look like.

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.

We are all scared

A twelve year old Ben Linus just gave me a chicken salad sandwich, how do you think I am?

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

In my career, I'm very grateful for the opportunities.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Retiring today allows me to walk away from the game with pride, rather than have the game walk away from me.