Everybody is on something these days. It's a racket. Overprescribing, masking the problem.

October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.

I am gone and am not coming back, but I remember everything.

Once I learned to read, I could not imagine my life otherwise.

Between the covers, a book can be a sin.

Love makes us do wicked things.

To lose one’s name is the beginning of forgetting.

As I let go of the past, the past let go of me.

The flickering candlelight conspired with the silence, and we only interrupted each other’s reading to share a casual delight.

He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.

My mind is an instrument of peaceI am the peaceMy heart sing the song of peaceMy mind dances with peaceI laugh with peaceMy soul is longing for peaceMy spirit is the source of peace.

As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.

Time's arrow is the loss of fidelity in compression. A sketch, not a photograph. A memory is a re-creation, precious because it is both more and less than the original.

Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.

How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

See yourself reacting to threats, not by running away or evading them, but by meeting them, dealing with them, grappling with them in an aggressive intelligent manner.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

We cannot steal the fire. We must enter it.

You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.

A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.