the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

People who promote the free market and growth are far more romantic, and far more ideologically driven and blinded by their vision than somebody who goes in and comments about the beauty of a forest or the stars in the sky.

Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.