“When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.”

“We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.”

“The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?”

“Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.”

“Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.”

“Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”