Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.

The cycle of birth, life and death is all part of nature but we can choose to live through the cycle with a hand on the Wheel of Destiny.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

In states where no regulation exists, anyone is permitted to perform medical imaging and radiation therapy procedures, sometimes after just a few weeks of on-the-job training.

whatever our ignorance left to itself, and whatever the wounds that other human beings are, we ought to study ourselves with a sort of devotion.

When we demand liberty of a person as a constitutional right, we are taking away from the officials their liberty to chop off people's heads.

Thank George Michael for your radical activism in the LGBTQ community! Love you always!

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Hope pulls the heart of tomorrow into the body of today.