I'm angry at what's happening to America and angry with myself that I can't do more. I would be miserable if I couldn't bear witness.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

A peaceful world is only the world of handsome guys and beautiful ladies.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

The ones who love you would never judge you, but those who would, obviously don't love you. So why worry about what people think and say about you?

You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

All I've got against golf is it takes you so far from the clubhouse.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

I pretty much work all the time.

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.