The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.