Promise was like a precious stone, she told me: hypnotising, but after a while the weight of it could sink you.

We are all a collection of lost causes, stashed here so no one has to see just how wounded we are.

With love, don’t desire to tie someone down but to set them free.

No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned.

The world was so much more forgiving of strength when it took on the appearance of weakness.

What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.

I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

Cynicism is the humour of hatred

In every moment there is a reason to carry on.

I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"

What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.