Unlike most European countries, the police in the US are decentralized; even the FBI has regional offices. Amending the constitution is a long and tedious process.

The nationalist right have common views. They hate the EU, they hate NATO, they dislike trade, they admire Russia. Many of them are funded by Putin.

The evolution of a bourgeoisie is a healthy phenomenon when it grows and prospers thanks to bourgeois values: hard work, honesty, personal responsibility.

The surge in right-wing populism and the phenomenon of Trump are related. You can think of them together as the same problem.

We may be reaching the end of the liberal world order.

Putin is not a mass murderer. But, having said that, he is a product of the KGB, and the KGB was, of course, the secret police force of the Soviet Union.

Sometimes you take the long way to get home. & some of the days feel like all this is is the long way home.(from Twitter)

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

It's as though a smile is ageless, or perhaps eternal, independent of the decay and collapse of the surrounding features.

Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear

As a newcomer, I was often expected to carry the bags of the older players, or get them burgers. That can make you feel pretty miserable.

Or perhaps it is some combination of spirit and desire, love and hope, some alchemy that we each possess and can put to use, if we first know where to look without flinching.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.

I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

If you go back to all my albums, they're all confessional.