We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had.

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown.

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

Freedom from one man is just another one.

Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is disgusted by this. Part of me celebrates it.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.Bones to Gregor

You want how you do business to be consistent among all team members, including partners, management, employees, and even vendors.

Never judge a situation merely with a negative perspective. Look at the positive side too, ” he added. “And if you do that, you will eventually feel better.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.

Who has time to make up stories when the truth is so much more interesting?

You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

It's cool that people like what I do, but I don't work for the audience.

Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!

The advantage of growing old is that you become aware of your mistakes more quickly.