Children contend with parents who are physically close, tantalizingly so, but mentally elsewhere.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

In this world there are two types of people: the ones who hurt, and the ones who are hurt. But if we all claim to be the victims, then aren't we all the criminals too?

If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.

She measured time in pages. Half an hour, to her, meant ten pages read, or fourteen, depending on the size of the type, and when you think of time in this way there isn’t time for anything else.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.

The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat.

I definitely believe in a higher power.

In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.

Oh sure, now you like him [after the audience applaud David Oyelowo].

I always tell what I see.