Long ago I had a professor who told me, 'Embrace the contradictions.' I think that is what is most interesting about people like Jobs.

As the power of governments wanes, corporations become ever more powerful. Sometimes they do things that aren't so good. We should pay attention.

Fundamental problem in American democracy is that we are allowing congressmen and senators to be bought and sold like sneakers.

Steve Jobs was one of the first people to understand that the computer wasn't just a tool, but that it could be an extension of ourselves, and he positioned Apple that way. The iPod was this revolutionary device with the idea of 1,000 songs in your pocket, and then that machine represents who you are.

It's easy to get armchair analysts to talk, but to get people on the inside to talk is very, very hard.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

The Church must be all-powerful. You discover these horrors within institutions because predators find ways of hiding in plain sight.