Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.

I want to remember what bullshit looks like when weapons of mass destruction are diagrammed out and whacko "intelligence" is delivered in an ominous way to strike fear into people and especially to pull on the idealism and zeal of the young.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.