...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

The translator of prose is the slave of the author, and the translator of poetry is his rival.

Men can be pitiless towards a woman whose body has eluded them, particularly if this is thanks to their own cowardice.

Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.

The loudspeaker on the wall crackles, hisses, and suddenly announces, in astonishingly soothing tones, that a train is going to be delayed. An ocean swell of sighs ripples through the waiting room.

The wealthy do not focus on day-to-day short-term survival. Successful people focus on wealth building assets.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

I knew, as soon as I woke up, that the dream had come from God and it was about the reality of Jesus. The truth of Him. The He was a person whose pronouns you had to capitalize. That He was God.

Pain and anger have to go somewhere. If we keep stuffing them down instead of processing them, we’ll end up either turning them inward, which isn’t good, or outward, which is no better.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.

I ask a lot because I'm very curious - especially about ex-girlfriends. I'm pretty good at getting the answers, too.

Also ... the plan sounded exactly like the sneaky, twisted, ridiculously annoying and noble sort of thing Leo Valdez would do.

The business is so driven by money, everyone's trying to get it right.

The world is too complex for subsumption under any general theory of change.

I was born into a very important family in Japan. My grandfather was a descendant of the Emperor, and we were very wealthy.