...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

One gets wise by meeting people and meeting people through their literature.

You have more power than you think. Be careful what you do with it.

Focusing on what I want, and what I need to do to get it, seems like such a small change in mindset, but it’s made a huge difference. I feel almost … invincible.~ Toby Faye

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

Now that the day of reckoning has arrived, they cry socialism!

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

I'm a journalist and that's what I do.

Music is the ethereal connection between this world and the other.

I do Pilates a lot. I don't do a lot of cardiovascular stuff.