“Trumps America is not America: not todays or tomorrows, but yesterdays.Trumps America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a v...”

“I had been fortified by trauma, the way a bone, once broken, grows back stronger than it had been.”

“The only way to vanquish cowardice is to brandish courage.”

“It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.”

“Children see God every day; they just don't call it that. It's the summer sky painted with cumulus clouds by day and sequined with a million stars by night. It's the sweet whispers of sweet gum tre...”

“I better understood the little lies that liquor told, lifting spirits and drowning sorrows while withholding the whole truth--that, in the end, it is the spirit in peril of drowning. Sorrows have g...”

“What greater gift than the love of a cat.”

“After all, a woman who doesn't love cats is never going to be make a man happy.”

“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect fo...”

“Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.”

“Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.”