it is perhaps unreasonable to expect a person to be singular in their gifts and graces alone, and not to be equally unlike people in other matters.

it wasn’t data that would dismantle their celestial parochialism, but storytelling.

It seems to be difficult for anyone to take in the idea that two truths cannot conflict.

Why do we seek narratives that move from less to more rather than from more to less, if the sum total is the same?

To be a revolutionary is to be in possession of an imagination capable of leaping across the frontier of the familiar to envision a new order in which what is gained eclipses the ill-serving comforts of what is lost.

governed by eternal forces deaf to human words—fundamental

policy change and cultural change are hardly the same thing, existing on different time scales.

cessation is the ultimate nature of all things, and that any dynamism, wherever in time it may fall, however briefly, is cause for celebration.

In the act of living, you come to dream different dreams, value different values, love different loves.