The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.

When women have a voice in national and international affairs, wars will cease forever.

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

I am a serious food lover and Peruvian cuisine is one of the best in the world.

The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

Man is a hybrid. From a lower order we have been genetically manipulated by advanced intelligences into what we are. Now that in itself is dynamite for god's sake.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

I have gone into the waste lonely places

When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.