Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

When I write I am the real me.

Sometimes it takes courage to leave.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

And in that moment I possessed and lost the whole world and everything in it and was left with the feeling and the knowledge, which is love, that no matter how we give ourselves we always end up losing. That to love is to lose, the moment we agree to the bargain. And that, being human, we keep standing there wanting to lose more.

I will stand by you. You must not be afraid. This is a brave land, Susanna, founded by brave people who never shrank from their duty or their vision of freedom. But this land has a future only if each of us stands up for what is right when it is given us to do so.