Mao is the only real Marxist at the leadership level in the post-Marx period.
Monologue is the most honest way to represent human beings.
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
I think it is time for a new pride in the intellectual life, and a new impatience with people who take pride in ignorance, or somehow use "elite" to mean "person who has taken the time to know" and then are eager to dismiss, say, striving, or the notion that improving one's self out of difficult conditions is a noble thing.
The thing I've discovered that is a help is that there isn't a simple virtue or a simple vice. They're always connected. If you have Tendency A, that you loathe, you can almost be sure that Tendency B, which you love, is somehow connected to it.
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded. . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.
The glass ceiling will go away when women help other women break through that ceiling.
Tantarrara! the joyous Book of Spring Lies open, writ in blossoms.
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.