The difference between stupid and ignorant was that ignorant could learn.
In this world you have to take your bits and ends of kindness where you can find them, as they do not grow on trees.
A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
Eventually they die. This is the end of the story.
But hatred and viciousness are addictive. You can get high on them. Once you've had a little, you start shaking if you don't get more.
The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.
A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out.
You don’t believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.
Being able to read and write did not provide answers to all questions. It led to other questions, and then to others.
My women suffer because most of the women I talk to seem to have suffered.
But compassion takes work, and we were young.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away.
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out.
Immortality is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal.
People who die at your age, that’s tragic. People who die at my age, that’s expected.
The exchange of politeness is one of the things that keeps civilization glued together insofar as it is.
There is a connection between how we care for our space and how other people are then able to live in it – not only other people in the future but other people now.