We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Ted Cruz who's been gaining on [Donald] Trump in Iowa and is polling ahead of him in the latest Monmouth poll would be quite reluctant to criticize Trump's plan saying simply it is not his policy.

With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.

Do not lose the person God created you to be Trying to be the person The world wants you to be You are not created to fit it in You are here on earth, For a greater purpose.

Let me not fear defeat or death, Let me not fear being forgotten, Let my defiance sustain my soul, Let it remain with me ever after.Poem: Prayer to the God of Rebellion, in ‘Chameleon Lights

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. When visiting the U.S. from Germany for a winter academic stay.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

Usually when people say they have mixed feelings about something, it's a sort of euphemistic way of saying they hate it.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.