The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

Love does not imply pacifism.

Hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

But what, precisely, is hope? At a talk I gave last spring, someone asked me to define it. I turned the question back on the audience, and here’s the definition we all came up with: hope is a longing for a future condition over which you have no agency; it means you are essentially powerless.

There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

We have been too kind to those who are killing the planet. We have been inexcusably, unforgivably, insanely kind.