Part of the heart of anarchy is, dare to go against the grain of the conventional ways of thinking about our realities. Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.