What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

You can't change what's going on around you until you start changing what's going on within you.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all.

Progress happens when we stop blaming and start solving.