What is the purpose of memory? Is it a trick to make sure we don't forget who we are by reminding us of who we were?

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors.

And who's to say that just because something lasts only a short time, it has little value?

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species.

I'm a woman in search on an adventure

Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

People aren't nice, people aren't nice, you should know that by now.

Time, without inception, instilled in one's spectacular mind of the mind, produces highly contagious thoughts that can kill you!

Always write to change society for the better. You will go, but it will live forever as a treasure.

Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.

I mean, that's at least in part why I ingested chemical waste - it was a kind of desire to abbreviate myself. To present the CliffNotes of the emotional me, as opposed to the twelve-column read.

Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.