We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

We are capitalism made flesh.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody.

Priests are no more necessary to religion than politicians are to patriotism.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Never ruin an appology with an excuse.

Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??

Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

What a unique treasure are the things we have learned to live without, for no thief can take them from us.