Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.

Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction

The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self.

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted.

What is realized in the novel is the process of coming to know one's own language as it is perceived in someone else's language, coming to know one's own belief system in someone else's system.

Every command slaps liberty in the face.

I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.

Bring It On, ..nobody in the world could handle me in a fight. Including Chuck Norris.

Repentance is the key with which we can unlock the prison from inside. We hold that key within our hands, and agency is ours to use it.

Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.

I grew up in the country surrounded by music.

We are here simply to decide whether Congress should take the taxpayer dollars of millions of pro-life Americans and use them to fund the destruction of human embryos for research.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

Don't sacrifice what you want most for what you want now. Write down what you want most and see it often.

Ideas are easy to conceive, less easy to execute.

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?