people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.

We survive day by day on this planet by adjusting down, adjusting down. Little by little, imperceptibly, we adjust to increasingly deadly conditions, and come to accept them as 'natural' or inevitable.

The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us.

The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it.