Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

We are capitalism made flesh.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

There should always be an end game, or else all you are doing is practicing for an opportunity for which you have no idea of what it is or what it will even look like.

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

Character built out of restrictions and boundaries can be deceiving.Be aware!

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes.

My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.

The Lord only demands of us what is within our capabilities.

What I do in my own time, is my business.