Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

A different world can be created or re-created-but not until we stop enshrining the economic values of invisible labor, infinite and obsessive growth, and a slow environmental suicide.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.