Be careful with the kind of company you keep, because behaviors and habits are very contagious.

Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined.

To focus solely on endings is to trade conclusions for the very beginnings that created them. And if this cycle should persist, we will likewise miss the beginning that will follow this ending.

Come Sleep! Oh Sleep the certain knot of peace The baiting-place of wit the balm of woe The poor man's wealth the prisoner's release The indifferent judge between the high and low.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

Each State can have for enemies only other States, and not men; for between things disparate in nature there can be no real relation.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because of the ubiquitous phenomenon of exaptation.

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.