The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

The natural resources of the world do not belong to any person, organization, collective, or so-called nation.

By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me.

If animal history has been a history of evolution, then the history of mankind is one of retrogression. Hooray for monsters! Monsters are the great embodiments of the weak.

You don't have to go through someone's pain to understand it. Empathy is enough.

Relying on nothing but scientific knowledge to produce an engineering solution is to invite frustration at best and failure at worst.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

Some call it schizophrenia, I call it a career

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

It is not because we have value that we are loved, but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift, not an achievement.