I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now.

If we believe that humanity may transcend tooth and claw, if we believe divers races & creeds can share this world as peaceably as the orphans share their candlenut tree, if we believe leaders must be just, violence muzzled, power accountable & the riches of the Earth & its Oceans shared equitably, such a world will come to pass.

…and there, in the background, the sky’s sediment had sunk to a place where all the woe of the words ‘I am’ dissolved into blue peace. He said it. ‘The ocean.

Good moods’re as fragile as eggs...Bad moods’re as fragile as bricks.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.