This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

Freedom, like everything else, is relative.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

We're facing growing climate change, more floods, more droughts, more crisis on a planetary level, and the systems we put in place in the twentieth century are just not going to work. We've run out of stuff. Our big problems are going to be energy supplies and food supplies. This is not a right-left issue. It's a people issue, and it cuts across all our categories.

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self.