...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.

You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave

We should take a lesson from the Irish potato famine: monocultures are vulnerable. Monocultures of any kind are very vulnerable, because one change and you're cooked. So we should be diversifying, wouldn't you say?

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

Why do men feel threatened by women?