Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Your silence will not protect you.

You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

It's possible to take that as a personal metaphor and then multiply it to a people, a race, a sex, a time. If we can keep this thing going long enough, if we can survive and teach what we know, we'll make it.