The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their lives to making things better for others. These are people whose names you never hear, people who work for Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and other humanitarian groups. They're just out there in the world, doing stuff.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

There is no gap between art and politics.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

In between effect and cause and just beyond the range of normal sight, this glittering joker was dancing in the dragon's jaws.

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.