The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too messy.

It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.

Toppling secular dictators in the Middle East has only led to chaos and the rise of radical Islam.

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world

People Really Do Respect Those who are Willing to Speak their Truth

Materialism means simply the denial that the moral order is eternal, and the cutting off of ultimate hopes; spiritualism means theaffirmation of an eternal moral order and the letting loose of hope.

I do not believe in a label on a shirt or a dress should tell me that I can't wear a T-shirt or a pant because it should say "women's"or "men's" on it, you know? That's just not how it should work.