I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

I see loyalty - roughly perseverance in relational commitments despite the cost of such perseverance - as an important human value/virtue. Think of it as a kind of relational glue.

Think of loyalty as a kind of relational glue.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Not what hatches out is the face to the world.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

[American's government] thinking they are the judge of the world; they're not.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

No matter how successful you get, always send the elevator back down.

I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.

I considered becoming a Christian... until I met one.

If you hold an anti-war rally, I shall not attend. But if you hold a Pro-Peace rally invite me.

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.