To change the world takes time

We are not defined by our individual loneliness, but by the web of relationships in which we’re enmeshed.

Everything is more whole in the end when you forgo destruction and instead repair, he reasoned. But some things can’t be repaired. His arm can’t be repaired. He will always be broken because of me.

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

This was the great difference between disappointing him and disappointing somebody like my mother, or even my aunts. Masculine self-centeredness made him restful to be with.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

The only way we can keep our freedom is to work at it. Not some of us. All of us. Not some of the time, but all of the time.

Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.

If the facts don't fit your theory, just find some new facts.

There is a sense in which a painted stick is a stick in bloom. This stick points to the hidden face of God. Sometimes it points to you.

Weight control does have to be for a lifetime or you'll be yo-yoing.