It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.

Words carry oceans on their small backs.

Sometimes a mind is just born late, coming through waves on a slower journey. You were never, in the end, alone. Isn’t it a blessing, what becomes from inside the alone.

We are all swimmers before the dawn of oxygen and earth. We all carry the memory of that breathable blue past.

Language is a metaphor for experience. It’s as arbitrary as the mass of chaotic images we call memory–but we can put it into lines to narrativize over fear.

my parents Oedipal fakers

Enough with the sadness! This dream is not for cry-babies...” he said, his face beaming with a wide smile.

Her exceptional beauty also helps her to keep her secrets. Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty

Don't let anything be too much for you

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Rather, to change a habit, you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

You miss every shot you don't take.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody