Knowing and believing are two different things.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life.

Cops before breakfast.Before coffee even. As if Mondays weren't bad enough.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

To find them all in one package...well, perhaps better not to dwell on his package in my fragile state.

I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.

You're a crazy woman, looking for an honest liar."Kyra to Rey (Reyes)

Do and act on what you believe to be right, and you'll wake up the next morning feeling good about yourself.

The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one.

The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice.

Peace might sell, but who's buying?

Everything you experience in your life is invited, attracted and created by you.

You have a set of skills, a way of looking at the world, and often in childhood it was revealed to you by things that you were just kind of naturally drawn to.

Boston is a state of mind.

When we started to do punk, we put all of these things together to create the look of an urban guerrilla - a rebel.