"There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast."

“Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.”

“The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.”

“At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often feels odd and arbitrary, but there's a moment when I don't want to change anything else and when the shape and length feels right. At that point, continuing would be destructive.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse than or identical with men...It's about justice, fairness, and access to the broad range of human experience.”

“The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'.”

Source : Phillip Lopate (2004). “Getting Personal: Selected Writings”, p.149, Basic Books

“And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.”

Source : Yehuda Amichai (2006). “Open Closed Open: Poems”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I don't get this shitty attitude that only gays should care about gay issues and only women should care about women's issues.”

“I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.”