...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

If you want to be strong challenge yourself to something that makes you feel weak.

You know she’s a liar if she says she’s never done it for ten bucks. We’ve all done it. Practically giving it away. But sometimes you can’t even give it away." - excerpt from: freefalling

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.

In your 20s, you feel like you're indestructible...In your 30s, you think...I'll be around here a little longer, so I'm going to take better care of myself.

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

So, yeah. Our cat was a goddess. What else is new?

The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises...

When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.