There is always money to kill people. There is never enough money for life affirming ends.

We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves.

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

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