#violence

"Knocking on a door is so violent. Talk on the door. Try to get it to open up through communication, not violence."

"Nobody peels a banana before stabbing themselves with it. But that’s exactly how I love—dangerously."

"I could scarf down a scarf faster than I could eat any other throat warmer, with the possible exception of your clenched hands around my neck."

"When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth."

"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes."

"This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence."

"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind."

"Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them."

"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back."

"Can America get back to a point where politicians are honest? Not unless that point is the tip of a sword."

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."

"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."

"Everyone who is not happy must be shot."

"I forgive you,"I said. I said what I had to. I would die by pieces to save myself from real death."

"I believe that Gandhi’s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."

"We got into an argument over the color of love. I said it was pink, and he said it was red. So you see, I had no other choice but to stab him."