The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.

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.

It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

I suppose belief is there to prevent people from thinking.

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

To hell with Trish's nose!

If mankind were only just what they pretend to be, the problem of the millennium would be immediately solved.

Your level of achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

Perception is a powerful tool.

A tale in everything.