It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

On their side more men are standing, on ours more will fight!

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

I think this was a change election, as David Axelrod said. It was a primal scream by many who feel that a discredited elite failed them, economically and politically.

Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.

We are so fond of hearing ourselves spoken of, that, be it good or ill, it is still pleasing.

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.