You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real. -Going Bovine

We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.

I do not want to pass the time. I want to grab hold of it and leave my mark upon the world.

Might. Is there any opiate more powerful than that word?

If you tell them what they want to hear, they don't bother to try to see.

They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.