How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

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

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

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is whatever more human-scale version might have been possible to perceive later and maybe even befriend; and there is the internalized version of the parent with whom you struggle- to appease, to escape, to be yourself, to understand and be understood by- and they make up a chaotic and contradictory trinity.