“We are unusual and tragic and alive.”

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”

“My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely ...”

“All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends we choose.”

“This war has made racists of too many of the and too many of us, and it is the leadership in Khartoum that has stoked this fire, that has brought to the surface, and in some cases created from whol...”

“When my parents passed on, and we read their wills, we discovered something we didnt at all expect, especially from our devoutly Catholic mother: they had both left instructions that their bodies b...”

“It's not worth it to build castles on the sand if they get destroyed by the waves of reality.”

“Peace does not come from destroying evil, but from building goodness.”

“It is necessary to build a system or a structure which will allow you to form your dream into reality”

“Some people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them," I said."Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That's what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

“I think if I've learned anything about friendship, it's to hang in, stay connected, fight for them, and let them fight for you. Don't walk away, don't be distracted, don't be too busy or tired, don...”

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

“Damn. I never should have agreed to this. What is he thinking? Here we are in a piece of crap pickup truck on our way to sit outside of a supermarket to kidnap this girl. Damn. Hed better not be fa...”

“Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in that small space above the dirt where the wind will not reach. We honor anniversaries of deaths by cle...”