I am the false character that follows the name around.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.

You could put your faith in technology. It got you here, it can get you out" - Murray (WN 285).

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.

It is always wonderful to see how beautiful other people's hearts can be.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

If you escape from people too often,, you wind up escaping from yourself.

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.