I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the mind will not be counted as good unless it produces measurable results. That public services will no longer be important. That an alternative life to getting and spending will become very difficult as cheap housing disappears. That when communities are destroyed only misery and intolerance are left.

Time is a player. Time is part of today, not simply a measure of its passing.

I care about doing the work as best as I can do, and that it should go on reaching people. It's not about fame and it's not about me. It's about creating something that might allow someone else to create something.

The impulse to worship is impossible to eradicate. Even the most prosaic have to worship something.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?