Were revolutions ever really what we thought them to be?

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.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

She won't know it if I'm not say it." Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.

Sometimes,” Sam says, “I can’t tell when you’re lying.” “I never lie,” I lie.

...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them.

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.