A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

If Springtime crawls out of thewild mouths of flowers, thensurely, Winter crawls out of mine.

We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture.

God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails

There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.

In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.

I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

I was mainly a stage actor. I found film acting mechanical, because it was so technical - there was so much technique with the lamps and the movements of the camera.

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.