I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.

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.

I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Getting back into the action genre is like going back home. It's great.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Since I'm the judge, it's a very stupid thing to irritate me!

I grew up in a martial arts gym surrounded by men and boys, and I pretty much call myself a tomboy.

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.