The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.

To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.

A place like this wears down everything, and tolerance is no exception. In here, coexistence passes for forgiveness. You do not learn to like something you abhor; you come to live with it...You live and let live, and eventually that becomes enough.

That,” she says, “was never here before.

How do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen?