Potential has a shelf life.

Writing poetry is a state of free float.

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

I was unfair to him, of course, but where would I have been without unfairness? In thrall, in harness. Young women need unfairness, it's one of their few defenses. They need their callousness, they need their ignorance. They walk in the dark, along the edges of high cliffs, humming to themselves, thinking themselves invulnerable.

A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

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.