Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

The best revenge is to always survive yourself.

The history of apartheid-era South Africa is incredibly sad and at times infuriatingly incomprehensible.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.