The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

There is no pressure to perform, to succeed, because we already have. If your family and community accepts you, who else must you impress? Just yourself and God, ja?

Fast car . . . You can drive anywhere in just a few minutes and time becomes just another thing we take advantage of never appreciating each moment that passes as a blessing from God.

Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writing thing, I'll go run a pumpkin patch.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

I really feel like if everyone listened to their angels the world which shift. We wouldn't see any kind of greed or competition - it would really be the world of kindness .

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.

With an iron-clad fist, I wake up and French-kiss the morning.

In order to stretch ourselves we do need to experience the vulnerability of not knowing the outcome.

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

Little Things isn't about anyone in particular, it's about all girls. You're all beautiful and you need to hear it more often