I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Ingenuity requires creativity.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

Dance while you have strength.

Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

We live on two levels ... the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?

There's so much kind of bureaucracy involved with the whole concept of net neutrality and like technical stuff.