When you are a member of an out-group, and you challenge others with whom you share this outsider position to examine some aspect of their lives that distorts differences between you, then there can be a great deal of pain.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

You'd better name yourself, because, if you don't others will do it for you.

The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.