I think that bias is not a fixed thing. It's not as though some people are biased and others are not. It ebbs and flows. It can be manipulated. It changes according to a person's circumstances.

Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumstances but not compromised away.

Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

Inequality saps the will to conceive of ambitious solutions to large collective problems, because those problems no longer seem very collective.

We all know who Donald Trump's talking to.

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Traditional medical ethics, based on the doctor-patient relationship must be changed... The primary function of health care regulations should be to limit an individuals own decision-making!

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

As my Buddhist teachers have shown me, wisdom emerges in the space around words as much as from language itself.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.

Joseph Campbell said the privilege of a lifetime is being yourself. That's his feeling. And I guess it's mine too.