Status Updates From La próxima vez el fuego

"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being or a state of grace--not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth."

"It is the responsibility of free men to trust and to celebrate what is constant--birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so--and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change. I speak of change not on the surface but in the depths--change in the sense of renewal."

"We are controlled here by our confusion, far more than we know, and the American dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare... Privately, we cannot stand our lives and dare not examine them; domestically, we take no responsibility for (and no pride in) what goes on in our country; and, internationally for many millions of people, we are an unmitigated disaster."