Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

Terrifying, that the loss of intimacy with one person results in the freezing over of the world, and the loss of oneself.

I'm holding a media mutiny.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.

Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.

I am one of the heretics who believes that art must be enjoyed first and analyzed later.

I believe that to command is to serve and only gives one the right to serve.

I've only ever known growing up across different countries - to me it's just fun.

But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.

Happiness is the peace of mind that comes from feeling that I am living a worthy life in the company of people I love and in the service of something bigger than myself.