Politics was his passion, but he wasn't suited for the rough-and-tumble of the game. He felt things too deeply. There was no wall between his head and his heart.

I've never had a 12-year-old try to explain to me about groove.

Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.

I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off.

If you feel like an outsider, you tend to observe things a lot more.

Socialism isn't just a list of economic prescriptions for government. Perhaps above all, socialism is a moral view.