"I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go."

-- Charles Bukowski

“I believe we will see a biofuels resurgence. While gas prices skyrocket and we continue to wage wars for oil, while spills, fracking, tar sands and the oil madness of our empire continue, people are waking up and realizing that you can't be against petroleum and against fuels that come from nature.”
“Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back. His name formed his core; ring upon ring of silence built around it. His face rose high above the forests. Gripped to earth, bending to the wind's fury, he disappeared within himself, behind the hard, wind-scrolled shield of his experiences.”

Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Riddle-Master”, p.535, Penguin
“The ways of love are strange and hard: The love you want is always barred; The love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange.”
“That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.”
“The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 27, 2014
“These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.”
“We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.”
“Never strike anyone so old, small or weak that verbal abuse would have sufficed.”

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