Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.