No rebellious heart is ever at ease with paths established by others.

Democracies should be a delirium of choices - more options, not fewer; more avenues to travel, not fewer.

Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture and vision, and by following the American way.

There must be engagement: there must be protest.

Threaten the balances of justice and you threaten the potential enlargements of mind and soul. Therefore justice is part of the safeguarding of the heart.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.