There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Use your art to fight.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

The idea of justice - even just dreaming of justice - is revolutionary. The language of human rights tends to accept a status quo that is intrinsically unjust - and then tries to make it more accountable.

Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn't matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.

States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence - so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only - or well that's excessive - usually, the resistance.

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

Anything's possible in Human Nature ...Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.