Credibility is a basic survival tool.

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

Violence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn’t an absence but the presence of something else, a kind of humming silence in which solitude seems as natural to your species as to any other, words strange rocks you may or may not turn over.