Distinctive facial features of a parent are poor people’s paternity test.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.

Not every person that speaks less than you do is more ignorant than you are.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

Rich people read their bills. Poor people dread theirs.

I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave.” Jareth the Goblin King

Being free means "being free for the other, " because the other has bound me to him. Only in relationship with the other am I free

He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.

...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

She felt worthless and hollow. There was no hope of fixing this.And when hope is gone, time is punishment.

Love can’t cover over the sins we cover up…If you want God and others to cover over your sin, stop covering it up.

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.

Griffin leans closer, his voice dropping to a low, suggestive rumble only I can hear. "There are things I could boast about, but I'd rather show than tell.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.