But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain

I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

Surely the earth can be saved by all the people who insist on love.