To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.