Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.

Clarity of language is the first casualty of authoritarianism.