The promenade is a special subset of walking.

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.

With a slow wink, he set the book in Tamaqua’s hands. “One of my favorites.

The beauty of artifacts is in how they reassure us we’renot the first to die.

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

You have to have passion when you're finding a recipe for a career. If you love what you are doing, you'll never work a day in your life.

If you go to a lower crossover point, a negative place of power, then the beings there are very unevolved, very demonic, crazy, lower than the people of this world.

Anything that you want to write about you can write about in sports.

Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

When creatively passionate people get together to start a company, the energy and camaraderie is really pretty stimulating.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right