The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

After all, spinning is its own reward. There wouldn't be carousels if it weren't so.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

What drives innovation is abundance and ease, not the pressure of scarcity.

Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.

Wit and puns aren't just décor in the mind; they're essential signs that the mind knows it's on, recognizes its own software, can spot the bugs in its own program.

Fanaticism comes in as many flavors as there are human beings.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

The First Amendment contradicts the First Commandment.

We have not ceased to insist that an Islam of tolerance is advantageous to all Muslims, for the Afghans and the whole world and we will always defend it.

Stop rushing me. I want to take my time falling in love with you.

Conservatively, I am saying that social networking has made being in a band more fun, but not necessarily changed how the business works.

I can choose to be unstable.

The closeness between the United States and Mexico is more than just a relationship between two governments.

Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

I teach young people how the arts can be used to stand up against injustice.

The first step of any communication is honest & consistent intentions, after this, even if you don't communicate, people will listen, hear & align