Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need

Silence has many advantages…I write and draw in my notebook and I read anything I please.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.

The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right.