"I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something."

“Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.”

“Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.”

“You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

“In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”

“It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'”

“A canvas is an arena in which to act.”

Source : Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

“The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.”

“[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.”