I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that there's a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.