People in apartheid South Africa can tell you that God cursed black people when they cursed Him. And so the hermetic people were condemned to be drawers of water and of wood.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Some of us might look like accidents, but I mean none of us is in fact an accident.

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth.