Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going.

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

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour, and being prepared to adjust our worldview.

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.