But it must be inconvenient to not be able to remember your name. I'll give you my last name, if you want.

You're like a plant. Very pure... so opposite from me that it surprises me. Maybe I can stay pure if I don't have to deal with people.

Masume works hard and he's very thoughtful. He likes hardships, so he's very useful.

If you don't understand, I'll stay with you until you do.

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

No one has the ability to define who you are unless you give permission.

You are perfect, Avery. Just like you are, flaws and everything.

Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there.

I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.

I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.