I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest. Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing.

She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it the everything change.

You aren't sick & unhappy only alive & stuck with it.