I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's real information, but it tells you next to nothing.

If we had no language we'd have nothing.