Mystery: Everything felt better before you got there than when you actually got there. When you actually got there, you didn't quite have the energy to be there.

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Protection is not a principle but an expedient

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

The hardest task of a girl's life, nowadays, is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Real men are real friends, showing their real commitment.

No two electrons in the same state? That is why atoms are so unnecessarily big, and why metal and stone are so bulky.

It's magnificent, but it's not war.