The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.

Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.

The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.