When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.

Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have lived and died have spent lives of wretched, fruitless, unremitting toil.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night.

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

as you think, so is your reality

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.

We always come back to our first love.

Music is proof that beauty is deeper than looks.

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

I'm not embarrassed about the novels I wrote when I was younger, but I couldn't write them today because of my religion.

Children in dysfunctional homes at risk of abuse are kept in danger for too long because politically correct rules mean we won't challenge unfit parents.

The excuses we make destroy the results we deserve

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.