The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

I keep living life as it's dealt to me. Sometimes, it's not dealt 100 percent. Sometimes it's dealt on the low '30s.

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.

I have the '86 Haro Master that I built. It was the bike I wanted as a kid and couldn't afford, and I'm like, "I'm going to build that Haro and never ride it."

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.