It is very difficult to sustain a high-quality relationship that has the kind of mutual intensity, that has a kind of mutual respect, without putting in time.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

Martin Luther King was a victim of surveillance, and had great solidarity with victims of surveillance.

A philosopher's a lover of wisdom.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.