She lives for this-the fight, the battle for survival. She actually enjoys it.

Live free or die.

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

He is no longer mine to lose, but the grief is there, a gnawing sense of disbelief.

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return.

But maybe happiness isn't in the choosing. Maybe it's in the fiction, in the pretending: that wherever we have ended up is where we intended to be all along.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

This is the past: It drifts, it gathers. If you are not careful, it will bury you.

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

There is no one who loves peace more than a soldier

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

When you have a purpose of life it becomes the light to show you the path toward your destination.

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

There's really no pain in the realm of the higher astral. A lot of spirits are playing mini-golf having a good time.

Nostalgia is not what it used to be.