“What else can love do? If we’re selling it, we’d better point out that it’s a starting-point for civic virtue. You can’t love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can’t be a good lover, a good artist or a good politician without this capacity (you can get away with it, but that’s not what I mean).”
“I don’t think it’s about finding happiness, but rather, finding redemption — finding the ability to redeem yourself, to give yourself
back to yourself. And that’s not something you find once and then you’re done; you don’t reach some magical point one day where the whole puzzle falls into place. Every day is the process of looking for the missing pieces — every day you find some new way to give yourself back to yourself, every day is a healing process, every day is a happily-ever-after in progress. It never ends — it’s as eternal as we are.” (Link.)
“It’s when people leave their “place” in the social heirarchy that the trouble starts. It’s when they start getting uppity and rebellious that they invoke the wrath of the complacent and of the powerful.”
“I may not always be right, but I care passionately about what is true and I never say anything that I do not believe to be right.”
“When a man is crucified, when he dies to himself, the heart opens up like a flower.”
“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing.”
“I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.”