In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

In my experience ideology is a lot like religion it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.

Children are a blessing. They are a happiness so sharp that it feels like pain.

We do not want to be haunds, teacher. We just want the haunds to go elsewhere for easy prey.

Government is big, we are small. We are only free when we slip through the cracks.

Staying married to one person was boring. She figured she was too complicated for that. Interesting people had complicated lives.

I would rather have 1 amazing best friend than 100 decent regular friends. It's not about quantity, it's about quality.

I will follow my visions and dreams, no matter what...

What was that feeling in my chest? Regret? Regret that I'd left last night after our kiss--that I'd pulled away before he could know how much I truly wanted him.

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

It is not the actual enjoyment of pleasure that we desire. What we want is to test the futility of that pleasure, so as to be no longer obsessed by it.

Carlton Mellick III is one of bizarro fiction's most talented practitioners, a virtuoso of the surreal, science fictional tale.

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time.

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.