There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

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.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.