friendship was always contingent.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

I hate to break this to you: One of these days I'm going to die. I expect that when I croak I'll no longer be using Twitter, unless I can do it from the grave.

She knows the rituals, she knows how we're supposed to be behaving...But I think these things are impenetrable and fraudulent, and I can't do them without feeling I'm acting.

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.