The people who have impressed me most - and the closest I've come to having heroes - are the people who have devoted their lives to making things better for others. These are people whose names you never hear, people who work for Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and other humanitarian groups. They're just out there in the world, doing stuff.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse, fashionable fascism dominates the scene.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

There is no gap between art and politics.

Most of the time, our deeper, stronger feelings are things we all have in common.

Wave the flag, wave the Bible, wave your sex or your business degree, whatever you want, just don't wave that thing at me.