Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

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.

If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.

If you're calling for peace, I am not home.

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

Regardless of what we do, our karma has no hold on us.

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.

Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.