“Physically, sexually he was the most compelling man I have ever seen.”

Prescient in her arguments for a plant-based diet.

He was part of the bad old post­modernism, in a good way.

Media, culture, and ideology are the battleground of the soul.

Orson Welles called her “the most exciting woman alive.”

She refused to stay silent while her people were cheated.

All of religion is crazy — not just the crazy parts.

“Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings.”

“I will never be/finished removing/all these faces.”

The American who helped start the anti-Nazi German resistance.

The UK’s first action heroine.

She planted a seed of doubt about the price of progress

There is a buoyancy to Ai that lends his work weight.

On a mission to end genocide and crimes against humanity.

He was a greater writer than assassin.

“Every person on this planet has a right to be true to themselves.”

“Everything that I know, I publish.”

A tireless activist, funny and trenchant.

“The truth has a power greater than a hundred lies.”

A vision of knowledge and cooperation, taken by the wind.

She refused to give up everything when she said, “I do.”

“A siren song sung in bass.”

Jeff Coudriet, and the afterlife on Facebook.

“I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser!”