I saw the truth, I saw and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the ability to live on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of people.

Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.

Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then . . . Well, then I woke up.

I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.

Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.

Don't halloo until you're out of the wood.

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture.

Today is reality. Yesterday is history.

Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind.

A movie is a miracle, even if it turns out to be a disappointment.

I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.