As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

We are marching against the law of the jungle that the United States and its acolytes old and new want to impose on the world.

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions. Decisions make us.

Every thing in life is a uniform; the only time our bodies are truly in civilian dress is when we're naked.

Yet human experience and the practice of communication have shown throughout the ages that definitions are an illusion, like having a speech defect and trying to say love but unable to get the word out, or, better, having a tongue in one's head but unable to feel love.