But not all scars showed, did they?

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

All I desire is to be so happy that I die.

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.

When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

I believe that challenges can push us beyond what we might otherwise be able to accomplish.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.

That I'm an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

Nature is made in such a way as to be able to be understood. Or perhaps I should put it-more correctly-the other way around, and say that we are made in such a way as to be able to understand Nature.

The time of universal peace is near. Prove this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world Shall bear the olive freely.