It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings.

I want the world to be filled with white fluffy duckies

I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

I've always been attracted to guys with big brains.

I believe we really became friends [with Larry Kramer] when we bonded at our fifteenth class reunion in 1972.

Janie: So you're a double agent? Cabel: Sure.That sounds sexy.

You either have faith or fear, not both. Things, they think, generate fear. The more things you have, the more you have to fear. Eventually you are living your life for things.

I believe that I can improve things.

Did you bring me a rat?" "He has no time for rats, George." "No time for rats? That's just sad.