We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.

Civilization is not and can never be sustainable.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

Love does not imply pacifism.

As is true for most people I know, I've always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?

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

By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.