From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume
Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.
I do love you. I think you know that, but just in case. . . I love you.
We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.
Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
Living is very serious, very real. It is also always a game. If we are wise, it is very real, very terrible, and very lovely, and a good deal of fun.
Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not in the dictionary first, it's not: change the signifier and the signified will go away.
There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world.
Life is fullest when we are most true to ourselves.
As an American I am not so shocked that Obama was given the Nobel Peace Prize without any accomplishments to his name, America gave him the White House based on the same credentials.