You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

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

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

Oppression involves a failure of the imagination: the failure to imagine the full humanity of other human beings.

I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized.