My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?

I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case...I love you.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Religion turned some folks belligerent.

People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?

Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

Isen wasn't a two birds with one stone kind of guy. More like one stone, two birds, a rabbit, a fox, and maybe that deer will trip over the fox and we can get him, too.

You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light.

There is a Dancer in every Woman.

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

The city had seemed grand to him once ... it had once had a certain clarity. When you're young you think it's the clarity that's intoxicating

Dates are important in history because what is done on those dates is of importance

The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.

There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.