Listening is terribly important if you want to understand anything about people. You listen to what they say and how they say it, what they share and what they are reticent about, what they tell truthfully and what they lie about, what they hope for and what they fear, what they are proud of, what they are ashamed of. If you don't pay attention to other people, how can you understand their choices through time and how their stories come out?

If sex is a war, I am a conscientious objector: I will not play.

History is a game played backwards only.

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.