The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

Maybe I'll try to be more patient with morons.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

You're incredibly beautiful,' I told her, because she was fat, so I thought it would be an especially nice compliment, and also make her like me again, even though I was sexist.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.