I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.

It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some liminal (as opposed to subliminal) space in between which is harder to inhabit because it never feels as safe as moving from one extreme to another.

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

Living simply makes loving simple.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.

there is no politically neutral art.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.