Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.

Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.