The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

The funny thing is, in reality we all just presume that life is going to happen when we wake up in the morning. What if it didn’t?

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

I can handle the craziness some of the time, maybe most of the time. But I know I can't handle it all of the time.

When you are feeling down, look at the skies. You are not always alone.

I admire Laura Bush because she's the only librarian who would marry an illiterate.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

We trust people we can count on. We count on people who do what they say they will do when they say they will do it.

Men don't oppress women any more than women oppress men.