Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.

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

We have only the language for fun and miserable, and maybe we need language for deep and shallow, meaningful and meaningless.

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is nothing more than the best perspective to contemplate there.