I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.'

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

If I can make you angry... I have passed your guard again. I have given you something to think about besides the Game

To achieve something is better than not achieving.

I understood that no one could have lobbed such a stinging wad of shame out into the world without having a considerable personal reserve of it to draw on.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Seems like everything people oughta know they just don't want to hear. I guess that's the big trouble with the world.

I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

Nobody can make anybody be someone he or she doesn't want to be.

You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.