More and more we are taught something throughout our growing up, our education, and continuously, no matter how much we believe in this thing, something comes up that forces us to revise our entire belief system. No matter whom you idolize, it turns out that Louis Armstrong collected vast amounts of pornography.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

To repeat, the way you get to the huge, impossible yes is, you start collecting a lot of easy, small yeses.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.