Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

Ultimately ideas come out of a temperament or a sensibility, they are a crystallization or a precipitation of temperament.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.