We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight.

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pi

getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart

I can't stop.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Grace rides inside the waves.

If I could have had my own way, I would have confined myself to black and white.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.

The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

I've always been interested in the fragility of things, and with special urgency now because of climate change, but also because of the accidents of reading.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

I'm a libertine, but it's not my specialty.