Rebecca Solnit

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.