Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. Perhaps there are some who disapprove of this, but without this double consciousness, literature would not get made at all.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

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.