I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.

What kind of world would we create if three times a day we activated our compassion and reason as we sat down to eat, if we had the moral imagination and the pragmatic will to change our most fundamental act of consumption?

This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus.

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why you shouldn't do it.