My good intentions are completely lethal.

The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.

Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

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.

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.