I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.

I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.

People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

The U.S. needs to control the Middle East, the gateway to Asia. It already has military installations in Uzbekistan.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

A journey never ends. Only the travellers end.

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.

No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

People who believe in gun control are ignorant, superstitious or stupid.

My heart is a teacup with hairline cracks. I feel like I have to walk real carefully so it won't get shaken and just all shatter and break.

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that and now, you know what? It's us

From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.

I love my job, I've always loved my job.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

The great basis of Christian assurance is not how much our hearts are set on God, but how unshakably his heart is set on us.

Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.