I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.

You know what the issue is? Do you want to know? It's what these guys have decided to call America. They have the audacity to say, 'There, you sons of bitches, don't lay a finger on it. That is a finished product.'" "But any country is still in the making. Always. That's just history, people have to see that.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

The happiest people are the ones with the most community.

I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: ignore it until it revolts.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.