Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

The idea that we can be exactly what the other desires is a powerful fantasy.

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh.

Discovering an inner history requires listening – and often not to the first story told.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

I miss those days even though I wasn't alive.

The idea of being vulnerable leaves a lot of room for choice. There is always room to be less foldable, more evil.

One of the emotional affordances of digital communication is that one can always hide behind deliberated nonchalance.

You get a medal for being tough.

The price of light is less than the cost of darkness.

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

We're going to have a very, very robust, level of performance having to do with mental health. We are losing so many great people that can be taken care of if they have proper care.

I don't want the IRS banging down my door.

No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.