People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

I'm grateful that, after an early life of being silenced, sometimes violently, I grew up to have a voice, circumstances that will always bind me to the rights of the voiceless.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.

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.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to make us visible to them. Our privacy is being strip-mined and hoarded.