There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.

Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.

The reason most people have kids is because they get pregnant.

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.

If it's important, your heart remembers.

It's very important to distinguish between innocence and naivete. The innocent do not deserve to be the victims of violence. But only the naive refuse to think about the origins of violence and to pursue the possibility that the genesis of that hatred could be addressed.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.