It was just the human story again, flowing through me as it did through everyone else, and I'd mistaken it as my own.p 284

The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

We came to life to leave a mark, either a wrong or right! So what route is your lifestyle taking?

No genuine revolutionary challenge to either the State or Capitalism in the United States can fail to ignore racism's importance in maintaining the current system.

Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Deep rivers run quiet.

I have met the people who run the world, and I am not in awe of them.

Let reason alone decide.

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.