When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing

I don't really read reviews and comments that much. There just isn't a lot to be gained from it.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.

I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Ok to appoint atheists or agnostics-no litmus test of faith.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

The Ploughmen is part inspired fever-dream, part adventure story, a lyric parable of not just goodand evil but of the vast and beautiful and often lonely country in-between. Kim Zupan is a wonder.

Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.

The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.