Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had a fantastic English teacher at school. I think great English teachers make the world go round.

The key to artificial intelligence has always been the representation.

We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

Right now I'm taking a break from hip-hop documentaries. But I would do it if things lined up.

Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die. In the time that it takes us to die, other forces and commanders can come and take our place.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.