It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.

And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.

There's tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that's okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don't know what to do with all those feelings.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

The only word for love is everybody's name.

At this point, I feel like I have roots in a lot of places. I have friends who have put down roots, in Seattle and San Francisco and Portland, and I feel very close to them.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.