Is it nonsense, is it brilliance? Why am I so flown with words, & apparently free to do exactly what I like?

So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.

I realized that you had no power over me, that it was not you alone who were my lover but the entire earth. It was as if my soul had extended countless sensitive feelers, and I lived within everything, perceiving simultaneously Niagara Falls thundering far beyond the ocean and the long golden drops rustling and pattering in the lane.

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way.