Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

They take you. They treat you. They transform you.

Some nights are just too long when you don't know what keeps you awake...

People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have for example freedom of thought instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.

You don't make Him Lord. He's Lord already. You just recognize it.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I felt like there wasn't a political discourse. I felt like there was just one set of values, and any one set of values was wrong; that there should at least be room for conversation.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.

I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too.

I come from suburban America. It was a very safe environment and it was a good place to come from in that it was a good place to leave.

Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers. It's easy to get sucked into an infrastructure rewrite death spiral.