“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”

“We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.”

“Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.”

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

“To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.”

“Lonely, ain't it?Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”