Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.
Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored.
Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you’re just going to keep buying and selling things until there’s nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
If you’re silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.
My heart hurt so much I can’t believe it. How can it keep beating, feeling like this?
Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.
You can’t truly have an open heart until it’s been broken.
The more I wonder, the more I love.
The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
Every soul is to be cherished, every flower is to bloom.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
There is no graceful way to carry hatred.
How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth.
Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.
The most important question in the world is, ‘Why is the child crying?’
I don’t know. I imagine good teaching as a circle of earnest people sitting down to ask each other meaningful questions. I don’t see it as a handing down of answers...
The nature of this flower is to bloom.