The world, our world, has existed since night of time, yet every day we must recreate it. If we did not walk upon the earth, it would not exist.

You ride astride the imaginary in order to hunt down the real.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Even ivory towers need central heating.

The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.

I came, I saw, I was confused.

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

Evolve your understanding of success from the outer realm of control, materialism, and ego, to the inner realm of surrender, spirituality, and compassion.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice. At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said.

Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.

I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

Masturbation is an absolutely peerless cure for the hiccups

Don't focus on the wins and losses... focus your efforts on performing to your full potential.

The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.