I'm relaxed, Belk. I call it Zen and the art of not giving a shit.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

That's justice, " she said, nodding at the statue. "She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde.

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you lose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.

A tragedy need not have blood and death it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.

Total contentment is only for cows.

In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.

I don't think anybody could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.

In the open air you don't play as many quiet songs as you would normally.

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

Traitors! I shall oppose you in the name of the Han!