"I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy."

"Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you."

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

"I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."

"To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that."

"I love that we can trust Barack to do what he says he's going to do, even when it's hard - especially when it's hard."