We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Sometimes the heart demands.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

Control is an advertising concept.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

Ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect

Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.

Jazz is restless. It won't stay put & it never will.

A man's calling is written on his true heart, and he discovers it when he enters the frontier of his deep desires.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription.

Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

All the design companies together make 10% of what Ikea makes.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.