Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?

There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.

On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

You promise me, he said. That you love him. Enough to marry him and make him happy.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Love life more than the meaning of it?

You have to do real acting, not just do a voice.

Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.

It's the only thing to do when you're in London - hang out in a taxi.

In the years of the Reagan-Bush administration alone, about 1.5 million people were killed by South Africa just in the surrounding countries. Forget what was happening in South Africa and Namibia.

A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.