There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

Each voice is distinct and has something to say. Each voice deserves to be heard. But it requires the act of listening.

Hope is not attached to outcomes but is a state of mind, as Vaclav Havel says, "an orientation of the spirit." And I have faith; maybe more than hope, I have faith. I think of my great-grandmother, Vilate Lee Romney, who came from good pioneer Mormon stock. She always said to us that faith without works is dead, so I think if we have hope, we must work to further that hope. Maybe that is the most important thing of all, to have our faith rooted in action.

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

I think direct political action, civil disobedience, in particular, is something to be taken very seriously.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.