I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.

Give people a common enemy, and you will give them a common identity. Deprive them of an enemy and you will deprive them of the crutch by which they know who they are.

The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding.

We are who we are, but we know who we are through our response to the changing world.

This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.

Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the words, I love you, Jane.

Too often we're happy to receive thanks from the nonprofits we fund, accepting gratitude instead of feedback or performance measurements.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.