A moral society will not set standards for becoming a parent, but it will establish irreducible minimums for maintaining that sacred status.

Information is the hardest currency.

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

Fear is an enemy that can be killed only at close range. The closest range of all is intimacy. The deeper the fear is embedded in one’s spirit, the more vulnerable it is.

Stealing to eat ain’t criminal—stealing to be rich is.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

No politician is threatened by the child protective constituency, because it does not exist.