Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?