What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

God sends someone for each and every one of us to help with our loss. We just have to accept it.

When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security.

You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

I still don't feel whatever change you're supposed to feel when your name goes up above the title.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.