Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

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.

Tolerance means to have the heart open to all differences

I WANNA GET ROUGH!""I NEED TO GET ROWDY!""I'M FEELING KINDA RECKLESS!

One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

The extent of my personal BMX adventures were all [on] dirt tracks. But just the aesthetic of it that early-to-mid-'80s BMX is something that's just part of me.

I am a lucky player; a powerful winning force surrounds me.

Economists think the poor need them to tell them that they are poor.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.