Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.

when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\