It was days like this when I felt it more than ever: I wasn’t a real human.

In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.

gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid but which none have a right to expect

I write a lot of environmental stories.

I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.

Don't ever let anybody know you're injured.

Where men come to and women come together most intimately in sexuality in the home has become suffused with violence.

I want nothing but death.

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.