We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.

You don't remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they’re processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions.

This is so much fun, but I’m so sleepy. To be continued?

I'm just reveling in the glory of not having to hear the neediness and impotence of my own voice.