guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Hate generalizes; love specifies. Or: The movements of hatred are toward generalization; love's movements are toward specification.

Oppression is something that one group of people commits against another group specifically because of a threatening characteristic shared by the latter group.

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.