Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied

I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)

The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim.

Because if you're gonna make someone choose, then you shouldn't be surprised when they don't choose you.

I believe in evil. It is the property of all those who are certain of truth. Despair and fanaticism are only differing manifestations of evil.

PowerPoint presentations too often resemble a school play - very loud, very slow, and very simple.

Most Americans want health insurance.

If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.