Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor.
Listen to your broccoli and it will tell you how to eat it.
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
My dad taught me that to be a writer is a decision and a habit. It's not anything lofty, and it doesn't have that much to do with inspiration. You have to develop the habit of being a certain way with yourself. You do it at the debt of honor.
I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.