I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.

The only way things will change will be when we're all wilder, louder, riskier, sillier, unexpectedly overflowing with surprise.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.

It will feel boring when you're bingeing.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

I've been told by people I respect that flashbacks only work if they have their own narrative, but they can't be part of the present narrative.

I'm happy to always be included in the list of women. I'd like to be in the sections about female leaders and male leaders. Why not?

There are a lot of men with feminine leadership styles and there are a lot of women with masculine leadership styles.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

A wife who obsesses on "fixing" her husband only succeeds in demeaning him.pg 48

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people

The ground of science was littered with the corpses of dead unified theories.

I still like to make crank calls.

I still know I have an awful lot to learn, and I hope I'm put in whatever situation it is that's gonna help me learn it, or that I'll get to watch really good people do what they do.

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

What is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy.

We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.