we are the ones we have been waiting for

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.