That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

It was a test of a fragile trust. It was a test of our curiosity and fascination, which walked side by side with our fear. A test of whether we preferred to be ignorant or unsafe.

I didn’t answer her. All I could have said was I don’t know, a sentence that was becoming a kind of witness to our own ignorance or incompetence. Or both.

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life lived in those celestial tidal pools so far from us.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.

As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.

Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.

The cards always look different when it’s your turn to play them

When I saw the rough cuts of ‘The Village of Peace,’ I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.

When the ivy has found its tower, when the delicate creeper has found its strong wall, we know how the parasite plants grow and prosper.

For the sick it is important to have the best.

Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.

I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery.