And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.

He experienced the singular pleasure of watching people he loved fall in love with other people he loved.

What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.

. . . breathing slowly and rubbing his palm against his chest as if to soothe his heart.

There was something scary and anxiety-inducing about being in a space where nothing seemed to be forbidden to him, where everything was offered to him and nothing was asked in return

This isn't fair, he would think in those moments. This isn't friendship. It's something, but it's not friendship. He felt he had been hustled into a game of complicity, one he never intended to play.

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.

My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.

It's a good story, ' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please, ' I said.And then he did.

He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult it was to end a friendship.

Thank god he wasn't a writer, or he'd have nothing to write about.

All the drain leads to the ocean...So chill out and enjoy the motion!

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

This can’t be a coincidence, and there’s no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.

The idea of a random stranger walking up to me one day and saying, 'Hey, baby, you smell like forever. Let's do it, ' isn't all that appealing honestly.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to peace and the freedom of racialized minorities.

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

Hillary Clinton's exposed more of our top secret documents than any Secretary of State in history.