...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the recorded screams of psychiatric patients.

No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...

The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

You can't get your head around something if you're yelling.

Please leave the window open.

We are ultimately at home in the world not through dominating or explaining or appreciating, but through caring and being cared for.

When collapse is imminent, the little rodents flee.

I have to say Justine Bateman may be the most underrated sitcom actress ever.

We may look up to Armies for Defence, but Virtue is our best Security. It is not possible that any state should long remain free, where Virtue is not supremely honord.

Peeta looks me right in the eye and gives my hand what I think is meant to be a reassuring squeeze. Maybe it's just a nervous spasm.