You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to acknowledge who you are holding.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

Stay forever enthusiastic about your desirable dreams.

And then I keep reading, anyway—but not just because I like the story. I like knowing that I'm touching her with my words. That they're crawling in her ears as she sleeps.

There is not a more powerful weapon upon this earth capable of inflicting more damage, pain and suffering than a betrayal of the heart.

HOBBES: Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

I am filled with humidity.

Neither the passions not justice nor politics nor the great social forces ever consider the victims they strike.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me.