I believe in a non-killing future.
I'm hopeless by e-mail, by phone, by text.
Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.
There`s a reason people pause their lives to engage in political activism and pressure their local political leaders. Because as a whole, even if you can`t identify any one instance, as a whole pressure works and sometimes it starts with something as simple as pushing the button on the intercom.
If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.
Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.
I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.
Do you still believe it impossible we exist? You didn't actually think you were the only inhabited planet in the universe. How can any race be so stupid?
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Continuous present is all we have, and stream of consciousness - which in a novel is arguably just as artificial as the stilted dialogue that you get in most conventional novels. They're all stratagems to try to get closer to the texture of lived life.
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.