Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth.

There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligation but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for one moment is to be free.

Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.

How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are?

I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised by sudden gains and happiness, which persuade us of good fortune, when all the while the glass is emptying.