This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.

The funny thing about decisions based on signs or gut or visions is that they're usually nothing but noble outs. Just another way to sabotage yourself and keep your bigger life at bay.

We need a country literally full of cat guys and cat girls, bikers, politicians, clergy, and everyone in between, in order to keep millions from dying without homes.

Someone needs to drag you kicking and screaming into this century.

A SCAR SHOULDN’T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

The best thing is not to think about [separatism]. [People in Alberta] don't even want to engage in talking pros and cons and why people feel this way.

Browseability is the key online.

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.

You have to do something bad to do something good.

Fairness is actually not having presumptive negativity written about you and always assuming the worst about you.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Feminism is one way of attacking society as it now exists.