Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

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.

In the Darkness, there's always a Light which Shines Bright!

Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rearview mirror.

The people who truly matter, would surely love you unconditionally for being true to yourself. So why worry about those who wouldn't accept you?

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.

I have to keep healthy; otherwise, I jeopardise my career.

We should be building great things that don't exist.

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinking and walking and looking, without being overly heavy-handed about it.

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.