Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology’s only credible conspiracy.

Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page any more than they begin on the first page

Honor is overrated.

There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

Americans need to understand the significance of having their civil liberties dismantled. It doesn't just affect terrorists and foreigners, it affects us all.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

The older I get, the more I just like plugging directly into my amp. I'm tired of trying to impress myself with weird sounds. It's about the notes more.