Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?

The real problem is not the bad guys; it is that good guys have gone to sleep.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

Those yellow eyes had seen the thing Ruby hid, even from herself. And when two people see a thing, for better or worse, it becomes real.

You can not serve two masters..but you can make both fight for you.

No guilt or anger or longing changes that.

No order, no pattern, just chaos. Lots of little universes separated by invisible screens . . .

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

I have a variety of friends I climb with. But the common thing is I trust all of them. They're solid climbers, the sort of people I trust to know what they're doing.

The expectation is that party leaders solve problems. That's why substantial differences must first be cleared up.