I loved you even when you forgot me.And—for a little while—you loved me back.

They’d come for you, and this time they’d come with we

The second day, I watched you suffer through one of your nightmares, but this one was worse than I’d seen before. You called out another man’s name.

I watched you roll off me and step away from the bed in silence, but when the heat of your body was gone, I wanted it back.

I wanted to take your hand into mine and kiss it.I never dared.

Not your distress. Never that. I loved— I loved being there. Next to you. The pile of limbs that was Us. Together in the same bed. Even if it meant waking up with a few new bruises.

I was asked a series of ques

I didn’t know what

I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.

I’m nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole

I know you’ve forgotten me, but I’ll remember you as long as I live.

Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.

Chocolate is not cheating! After a salty meal, you need a little bit of sweet. This is living, not cheating.

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better.

Where could I go but to the Lord?

I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.

My brain has always been wired in such a way that I'd rather communicate to a smaller audience who really get turned on by what I do than meet a wider audience and give them milk.

You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

I may not answer the questions that either the moderator or you want to hear, but I'm going to talk straight to the American people and let them know my track record also.